November 08, 2011 4:34AM
Wow, That's Fast! Instant DNS Updates and More...
DNS
Product News
Speed & Reliability
Reliability
At CloudFlare, we're constantly trying to make things faster. To give you a sense, at our current scale, for every 1 millisecond (1/1000th of a second) we remove from requests through our network, we save a lifetime (70 years) worth of time every year....
November 04, 2011 11:41PM
Easiest SSL Ever, Now Included Automatically with Every Paid Plan
HTTPS
SSL
Product News
Security
SSL today is too hard. While it's something every website should support, even for the technically savvy, getting a SSL certificate properly installed on your web server can be daunting. Moreover, several platforms like Google AppEngine don't fully support SSL so it's not a possibility....
October 19, 2011 3:45AM
Stayin' Alive
TCP
Speed
Product News
Speed & Reliability
We've been making a lot of improvements deep within CloudFlare that you'll start to see the benefits of over the coming weeks. As the changes graduate from our tests to full production, we'll try and give you a sense of what they are and why they're important....
October 03, 2011 3:30AM
Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
JavaScript
Rocket Loader
Speed & Reliability
Product News
Speed
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new HTTP request. More requests, more wasted overhead....
September 27, 2011 9:45AM
Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway
IPv6
Save The Web
IPv4
Cloudflare History
Birthday Week
Product News
Security
CloudFlare launched publicly exactly one year ago today. In that year, we have grown from virtually no traffic to powering more than 15 billion page views for 350 million unique visitors in the last month....
September 16, 2011 9:23PM
CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
As many of our Facebook fans and Twitter followers may have noticed recently, CloudFlare has been spending a fair amount of time recently asking what we can do to improve the service....