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Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince

San Francisco, CA

A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).

No Payola Here. Period.

2011-11-11

FreeCloudflare History

We regularly get requests to provide a free paid account in exchange for promoting CloudFlare. I may be naive, but I was surprised to learn how many web companies go along with these arrangements — or even suggest them themselves. ...

A Brief Primer on Anycast

2011-10-21

AnycastDNSSpeed & 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. ...

Stayin' Alive

2011-10-19

TCPSpeedProduct NewsSpeed & 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. ...

Robust, Free DNS FTW

2011-10-17

FreeDNSSpeed & Reliability

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)....

A Quick Update on Page Views

2011-08-29

Analytics

About a month ago I wrote a blog post titled: When Is a Page View Not a Page View. It explained how CloudFlare counted page views differently than beacon-based analytics systems like Google Analytics. ...