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Non-Latin/UTF8 International Domains (IDNs) Now Fully Supported

Published on April 9th, 2012 11:03PM by Matthew Prince.

One of the strangest questions I get when talking about CloudFlare is: "How are you ever going to expand your customer base beyond Silicon Valley?"

Check out CloudFlare's New UI

Published on March 31st, 2012 6:48PM by Damon Billian.

CloudFlare has been beta testing a new account interface for several months with many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter. This week, we rolled out the new interface to all CloudFlare users.

The CloudFlare Story

Published on March 20th, 2012 9:56PM by Kristin Tarr.

We are frequently asked by customers, media, friends and peers the story of how CloudFlare started. Next week, CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway will tell this story first hand at the Harvard Club of San Francisco's Founders Series.

CloudFlare Is a Community

Published on February 17th, 2012 10:46PM by Matthew Prince.

Today, CloudFlare adds more than 250 customers every ~6 hours, but getting our first 250 took several months and a lot of faith. When we started working on CloudFlare, an employee at a major CDN company warned us that we had no idea all the crazy things people did with their websites.

What Is CloudFlare?

Published on January 6th, 2012 10:09PM by Matthew Prince.

I just got off the phone with a reporter. Like many reporters or analysts we talk to, she wanted to put CloudFlare into a defined category. Specifically, she wanted to call us a content delivery network (CDN) and compare us with companies like Akamai or Amazon's CloudFront.