Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020
May 15, 2020 11:00 AM
In Q1 2020, traffic levels have increased by over 50% in many countries, but have DDoS attacks increased as well?...
DDoS attacks have evolved, and so should your DDoS protection
April 30, 2020 3:26 PM
Building a modern DDoS solution that is truly effective in thwarting ever-evolving DDoS attacks, to protect all of our customers has been a core tenet for us - enabling us to be an industry leader....
Offer of Assistance to Governments During COVID-19
April 15, 2020 1:03 PM
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public....
Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft
April 13, 2020 7:06 PM
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans....
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
April 08, 2020 1:00 PM
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail....
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April 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content. ...
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March 24, 2020 12:00 PM
Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory....
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March 21, 2020 12:00 PM
Adding the Fallback Pool to the Load Balancing UI and other significant UI enhancements
The Cloudflare Load Balancer was introduced over three years ago to provide our customers with a powerful, easy to use tool to intelligently route traffic to their origins across the world....
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March 12, 2020 9:57 PM
Cloudflare During the Coronavirus Emergency
We know that organizations and individuals around the world depend on Cloudflare and our network. I wanted to send you a personal note to let you know how Cloudflare is dealing with the Coronavirus emergency....
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February 26, 2020 12:00 PM
Impact of Cache Locality
Our Gen X servers process more requests per second per core than our previous fleet. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 processor’s large L3 cache minimizes L3 cache misses, and the time-savings add up quickly....
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February 25, 2020 2:00 PM
An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU
As we looked at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, we’re moving on from Gen 9's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162's to a 48-core single socket AMD EPYC 7642....
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February 24, 2020 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently....
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January 15, 2020 12:30 PM
Introducing Cloudflare for Campaigns
During the past year, we saw nearly 2 billion global citizens go to the polls to vote in democratic elections. There were major elections in more than 50 countries, including India, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom, as well as elections for the European Parliament. ...
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December 31, 2019 7:13 PM
Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization
HTTP prioritization is important for web performance. This is the story behind a new approach recently adopted for further work in the IETF....
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December 24, 2019 6:04 PM
This holiday's biggest online shopping day was... Black Friday
What’s the biggest day of the holiday season for holiday shopping? Black Friday, the day after US Thanksgiving, has been embraced globally as the day retail stores announce their sales....
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November 20, 2019 4:30 PM
Even faster connection establishment with QUIC 0-RTT resumption
One of the more interesting features introduced by TLS 1.3, the latest revision of the TLS protocol, was the so called “zero roundtrip time connection resumption”, a mode of operation that allows a client to start sending application data, such as HTTP requests...
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October 24, 2019 1:00 PM
Who DDoS'd Austin?
It was a scorching Monday on July 22 as temperatures soared above 37°C (99°F) in Austin, TX, the live music capital of the world. Only hours earlier, the last crowds dispersed from the historic East 6th Street entertainment district. ...
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September 27, 2019 7:00 PM
Birthday Week 2019 Wrap-up
This week we celebrated Cloudflare’s 9th birthday by launching a variety of new offerings that support our mission: to help build a better Internet. Below is a summary recap of how we celebrated Birthday Week 2019....
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September 25, 2019 1:00 PM
WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP+ to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic....
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