2024-09-25
TURN servers help relay media and data between devices when direct peer-to-peer connections are blocked or fail. Cloudflare Calls' TURN server uses anycast to eliminate the need to think about regions or scaling, improving reliability of WebRTC applications....
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2024-07-16
Cloudflare is adding support for end-to-end private traffic flows to our local traffic management (LTM) load balancing solution, and allowing for the replacement of hardware load balancers...
2024-05-31
Cloudflare is adding support for all TCP and UDP traffic to our local traffic management (LTM) load balancing solution, extending the benefits of LTM to more than just HTTP(S) applications...
2023-09-08
We are extremely excited to announce a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, Local Traffic Management (LTM) with deep integrations with Zero Trust!...
2022-08-02
Today, we’re excited to announce a frequently requested feature for our Load Balancer – Weighted Pools...
October 07, 2021 3:07 PM
Today, we are announcing Waiting Room’s general availability and several new features that have user experience in mind — an alternative queueing method and support for custom web/mobile applications!...
July 16, 2021 1:00 PM
Take control of your traffic by adding custom logic to your origin selection and traffic steering decisions!...
April 09, 2021 1:00 PM
Load Balancing as a concept is pretty straightforward. Take an existing infrastructure and route requests to the available origin servers so no single server is overwhelmed. Add in some health monitoring to ensure each server has a heartbeat/pulse so proactive decisions can be ma...
January 22, 2021 2:01 PM
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines....
January 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future. ...
September 09, 2020 11:00 AM
Unimog is the Layer 4 Load Balancer for Cloudflare’s edge data centers. This post explains the problems it solves and how it works....
June 10, 2020 11:00 AM
We own and operate physical infrastructure for our backend services. We need an effective way to route arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic between services and also from outside these data centers....
March 21, 2020 12:00 PM
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....
December 10, 2019 2:00 PM
Cloudflare aspires to make Internet properties everywhere faster, more secure, and more reliable. Load Balancing helps with speed and reliability and has been evolving over the past three years....
December 09, 2019 3:15 PM
This week we’re excited to announce a number of new products and features that provide deeper security and reliability insights, “proactive” analytics when there’s a problem, and more powerful ways to explore your data....
June 06, 2019 1:01 PM
Many overlook a critical portion of the language in Cloudflare’s mission: “to help build a better Internet.” From the beginning, we knew a mission this bold, an undertaking of this magnitude, couldn’t be done alone....
June 02, 2019 9:00 PM
If you want to start an intense conversation in the halls of Cloudflare, try describing us as a "CDN". CDNs don't generally provide you with Load Balancing, they don't allow you to deploy Serverless Applications, and they certainly don't get installed onto your phone. ...
October 25, 2018 1:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. Combining Spectrum with Load Balancing enables traffic management of TCP connections utilising the same battle tested Load Balancer our customers already use for billions of HTTP requests e...
September 10, 2018 9:21 AM
Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers....
July 26, 2018 6:35 PM
In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perim...
