Six years old and time for an update: CloudFlare becomes Cloudflare
September 27, 2016 7:26PM
Today, Cloudflare turns six years old, and if you’re reading this on our blog, you may have noticed that we look a bit different today than the cloudflare.com that you’ve visited in the past. More on that a bit later in this post....
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What's the story behind the names of CloudFlare's name servers?
August 06, 2013 3:40PM
Our History
DNS
Ninjas
We're going to do a series of blog posts about some of the inner workings of CloudFlare. One of the questions we get often is what the names of our name servers mean. Here's the story....
Cloudflare Tips: Troubleshooting Common Problems
November 18, 2011 11:08PM
Bugs
Tips
Ninjas
Debugging technical issues online can be tricky. There are many moving pieces; it can be an isolated network connection with the ISP, an issue with your server or one of CloudFlare's data centers could be temporarily having a problem....
2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved
November 14, 2011 6:44AM
Milestones
Free
Bandwidth
Ninjas
Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a staggering amount of data....
Cloudflare Tips: Using Cloudflare for your forums
February 25, 2011 5:40PM
Tips
Ninjas
Events
ForumCon attracted forum owners from all over the world and we got to meet a lot of interesting people. Some of the key things we heard was that unlike other types of websites, forums had to have the ability for its members to post comments and connect in real-time....
February 11, 2011 1:53AM
CloudFlare Tips: Frequently used CloudFlare settings
Many of our recent blog posts have had to do with helping customers navigate the CloudFlare service effectively. Staying wit that theme, we wanted to review some of the most frequently used CloudFlare settings that people use (or need to know about) on the CloudFlare 'Settings' page....