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December 04, 2015 12:56 PM
Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2
With CloudFlare's release of HTTP/2 for all our customers the web suddenly has a lot of HTTP/2 connections. To get the most out of HTTP/2 you'll want to be using an up to date web browser (all the major browsers support HTTP/2)....
September 22, 2015 4:21 PM
Why we raised $110m from Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Qualcomm
The past few years have been marked by tremendous growth for CloudFlare. At the time of our last fundraising in December 2012, CloudFlare was a team of 37 operating a network in 23 cities and 15 countries—today we number over 200 with a presence in 62 cities and 33 countries....
May 08, 2015 10:02 AM
Google PageSpeed Service customers: migrate to CloudFlare for acceleration
This week, Google announced that its hosted PageSpeed Service will be shut down. Everyone using the hosted service needs to move their site elsewhere before August 3 2015 to avoid breaking their website....
April 13, 2015 2:02 PM
CloudFlare is now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner
We’re excited to announce that CloudFlare has just been named a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. So what does this mean?...
March 30, 2015 9:21 AM
Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary
A few years ago Google made a proposal for a new HTTP compression method, called SDCH (SanDwiCH). The idea behind the method is to create a dictionary of long strings that appear throughout many pages of the same domain (or popular search results)....
October 06, 2014 9:35 PM
The little extra that comes with Universal SSL
Last Monday we announced our SSL for Free plan users called Universal SSL. Universal SSL means that any site running on CloudFlare gets a free SSL certificate, and is automatically secured over HTTPS....
August 06, 2014 2:00 PM
Google Now Factoring HTTPS Support Into Ranking; CloudFlare On Track to Make it Free and Easy
As of today, there are only about 2 million websites that support HTTPS. That's a shamefully low number. Two things are about to happen that we at CloudFlare are hopeful will begin to change that and make everyone love locks (at least on the web!)....
March 05, 2014 12:00 AM
It's Go Time on Linux
Some interesting changes related to timekeeping in the upcoming Go 1.3 release inspired us to take a closer look at how Go programs keep time with the help of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is a complex topic and determining the current time isn’t as simple as it might seem at fir...
February 17, 2014 4:00 PM
Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1
Back in June 2012 CloudFlare started a beta rollout of Google's then new SPDY protocol and we took a detailed look at how SPDY makes web sites faster....
December 26, 2013 5:00 PM
Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY
It’s common knowledge that domain sharding, where the resources in a web page are shared across different domains (or subdomains), is a good thing. ...
September 20, 2013 6:00 AM
Why some cryptographic keys are much smaller than others
If you connect to CloudFlare's web site using HTTPS the connection will be secured using one of the many encryption schemes supported by SSL/TLS. ...
November 06, 2012 9:09 AM
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. ...
June 25, 2012 7:14 AM
What makes SPDY speedy?
Google has proposed a new protocol for downloading web pages called SPDY and CloudFlare will shortly be making it available in beta form. SPDY is designed to make web browsing faster without replacing HTTP. ...
May 23, 2012 8:46 PM
Moog Music: Staying online when Google doodles you
Today Google celebrated the birthday of Bob Moog, the creator of the Moog keyboard, with an interactive doodle. If you haven't played with it, it's pretty cool. Check out, for example, this version of the Legend of Zelda theme music composed with today's doodle.
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February 21, 2012 6:47 PM
Introducing Page Rules: URL Forwarding
In the last blog post, I introduced Page Rules and showed how you could use it to control CloudFlare's features like Apps, Performance, and Security settings on a page-by-page basis. Here I'm going to explain how you can use the same Page Rules interface to enable URL forwarding....