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April 11, 2012 11:12 PM
Introducing: I'm Under Attack Mode
CloudFlare provides a broad level of protection from a wide range of attacks. We do this while minimizing false positives or annoyances to legitimate customers. CloudFlare didn't begin as a DDoS mitigation service, but we've rapidly found that we are good at it....
April 11, 2012 1:21 PM
ScrapeShield: The scaled up, deep intelligence anti-scraping service
Months before I joined CloudFlare as a programmer I signed up for the company's service to protect my blog from hackers, spammers and scrapers. I saw an instant reduction in the amount of spam, an enormous decrease in hacking attempts, and a halt to the bots that scrape site cont...
April 10, 2012 10:33 PM
CloudFlare's New UI: Managing DNS records
We have released a number of changes to the site to make things easier to find and locate. Since making changes to existing DNS records and adding new ones are vitally important to site owners, we thought it would be helpful to craft a blog post showing the changes to the DNS edi...
April 05, 2012 1:01 PM
Welcome DreamHost!
We hung out with the DreamHost team for the first time at HostingCon in August 2011. They threw a great party, had awesome t-shirts, and exuded the kind of excitement and passion for hosting that CloudFlare has for making websites faster and more secure. ...
March 31, 2012 6:48 PM
Check out CloudFlare's New UI
CloudFlare has been beta testing a new account interface for several months with many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter. This week, we rolled out the new interface to all CloudFlare users. ...
March 29, 2012 4:30 PM
Introducing ScrapeShield: Discover, Defend & Deter Content Scraping
If you're a publisher, whether an individual blogger or major media outlet, you've undoubtedly experienced content scraping. Searching the web for an article you've published or other original content you've created and you find it copied and republished on some other random webs...
March 01, 2012 5:15 AM
CloudFlare Now Supporting More Ports
CloudFlare protects and accelerates web traffic. As a result, we initially only proxied traffic for the two main web ports: 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). One of the top customer service questions we receive is: "Why did my control panel stop working after I signed up?" ...
February 22, 2012 6:24 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
February 20, 2012 11:57 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control. ...
January 12, 2012 10:42 PM
CloudFlare Expanding the IPv6 Web
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving. ...
November 15, 2011 12:06 AM
CloudFlare Product Updates: Updated WordPress Plugin, Invoices & New CloudFlare IP addresses
As you may have noticed recently, our engineers have been releasing a bunch of new products over the past few weeks. In addition to a vastly improved and cheaper option for adding CloudFlare SSL to domains, we've also made a few changes that may have been missed with the SSL chan...
November 08, 2011 4:34 AM
Wow, That's Fast! Instant DNS Updates and More...
At CloudFlare, we're constantly trying to make things faster. To give you a sense, at our current scale, for every 1 millisecond (1/1000th of a second) we remove from requests through our network, we save a lifetime (70 years) worth of time every year....
November 04, 2011 11:41 PM
Easiest SSL Ever, Now Included Automatically with Every Paid Plan
SSL today is too hard. While it's something every website should support, even for the technically savvy, getting a SSL certificate properly installed on your web server can be daunting. Moreover, several platforms like Google AppEngine don't fully support SSL so it's not a possi...
October 19, 2011 2:45 AM
Stayin' Alive
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. ...