February 20, 2012 11:57PM
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
Product News
Page Rules
DNS
Speed & Reliability
Reliability
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....
December 16, 2011 8:28PM
CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
Project Honey Pot
Our History
Speed & Reliability
In 2004, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot. The site, which tracks online fraud and abuse, primarily consists of web pages that report the reputation of IP addresses....
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....
October 21, 2011 6:33AM
A Brief Primer on Anycast
Anycast
DNS
Speed & Reliability
I wrote a blog post the other day about CloudFlare's globally distributed DNS infrastructure and how each ninja name server we give you when you signup doesn't represent just one machine, but instead a whole cluster of machines in each of the data centers we operate worldwide....
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 18, 2011 12:10AM
Robust, Free DNS FTW
Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain that humans can read (example.com) into an IP address that computers can read (192.0.43.10)....