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How we built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domains

Published on June 7th, 2017 12:47PM by Julien Desgats.

Back in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and operate, their origin servers are not bothered by excessive traffic or layer 7 attacks,

You Can Finally Get More Page Rules For 5 For $5

Published on August 25th, 2016 4:01PM by Dani Grant.

Since CloudFlare launched Page Rules in 2012, our Free, Pro and Business users have been asking for a way to get more Page Rules without committing to the next plan up. Starting today, anyone on CloudFlare can add 5 additional Page Rules for just $5/month. Page Rules allows you

HTTP/2 For Web Developers

Published on December 10th, 2015 12:10PM by Ryan Hodson.

HTTP/2 changes the way web developers optimize their websites. In HTTP/1.1, it’s become common practice to eek out an extra 5% of page load speed by hacking away at your TCP connections and HTTP requests with techniques like spriting, inlining, domain sharding, and concatenation. Life’s

CloudFlare Tips: Speeding up your WordPress blog

Published on August 22nd, 2011 5:14PM by Damon Billian.

WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform on CloudFlare, with many WordPress users taking advantage of the fact that CloudFlare's free CDN can help speed up their sites by caching static content and distributing that content to CloudFlare's datacenters around the world.

Website Performance Matters

Published on December 15th, 2010 11:48PM by Michelle Zatlyn.

It is no secret -- there are many benefits of having a fast website. The faster your website loads, the longer a visitor is likely to stay. The actual stat is that for every 100ms, you lose 1% of your visitors.