April 11, 2012 1:21 PM
Months before I joined CloudFlare as a programmer I signed up for the company's service to protect my blog from hackers, spammers and scrapers. I saw an instant reduction in the amount of spam, an enormous decrease in hacking attempts, and a halt to the bots that scrape site content....
April 10, 2012 10:33 PM
We have released a number of changes to the site to make things easier to find and locate. Since making changes to existing DNS records and adding new ones are vitally important to site owners, we thought it would be helpful to craft a blog post showing the changes to the DNS editor....
April 05, 2012 1:01 PM
We hung out with the DreamHost team for the first time at HostingCon in August 2011. They threw a great party, had awesome t-shirts, and exuded the kind of excitement and passion for hosting that CloudFlare has for making websites faster and more secure. ...
March 31, 2012 6:48 PM
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. ...
March 29, 2012 4:30 PM
If you're a publisher, whether an individual blogger or major media outlet, you've undoubtedly experienced content scraping. Searching the web for an article you've published or other original content you've created and you find it copied and republished on some other random website....
February 22, 2012 6:24 PM
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
February 20, 2012 11:57 PM
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control. ...
January 12, 2012 10:42 PM
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving. ...
November 15, 2011 12:06 AM
As you may have noticed recently, our engineers have been releasing a bunch of new products over the past few weeks. In addition to a vastly improved and cheaper option for adding CloudFlare SSL to domains, we've also made a few changes that may have been missed with the SSL chan...
November 08, 2011 4:34 AM
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 11:41 PM
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 possi...
October 19, 2011 2:45 AM
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 2:30 AM
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 8:45 AM
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 8:23 PM
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. ...
January 19, 2011 12:18 AM
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......
January 05, 2011 10:43 PM
CloudFlare protects your website from malicious attacks by stopping the request before it reaches your server. Often these requests are from automated bots crawling your website looking for a vulnerability. Sometimes, the threat is a web surfer whose computer has been compromised...
January 01, 2011 2:19 AM
We were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is: 173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)...
December 06, 2010 11:50 PM
As a fellow startup, it's been really painful to watch the challenges Tumblr has gone though over the last 24 hours. With any sufficiently complex system, it is inevitable that unexpected problems will arise. ...
