Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?
December 15, 2011 12:28 AM
I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...
100 Billion Page Views
December 09, 2011 4:49 AM
In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a quarter of the total page views for the year (about 25 billion) has come in just the last 30 days....
Is Cyber Monday Real?
December 02, 2011 2:33 AM
I wrote a post last week about Surviving Black Friday, the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the United States is said to be the Monday after Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday....
The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth
July 14, 2011 10:27 PM
Back in 1992, I was part of a small team of students at Trinity College that helped build what turned out to be one of the first, if not the first, online-only magazines. It was an evolution of an email newsletter, the brain child of Peter Adams and Paul Tesco, called the Trincoll Journal....
2,000 Page Views Per Second
May 17, 2011 11:21 PM
This morning we crossed a milestone: delivering a sustained average of 2,000 page views per second. Peak traffic is even higher. ...