Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY
December 26, 2013 5:00 PM
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. ...
Ask CloudFlare: How do I make my website faster?
December 10, 2013 10:00 AM
We get asked this question all the time: How do I make my website faster? So, on Thursday, we're holding a webcast to go through our recommendations and also answer your questions live....
What we've been doing with Go
November 11, 2013 1:00 AM
Almost two years ago CloudFlare started working with Go. What started as an experiment on one network and concurrency heavy project has turned into full, production use of Go for multiple services....
A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
July 22, 2013 8:30 AM
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month. ...
Railgun Gives our Ecommerce Sites the Edge
July 15, 2013 3:00 PM
In March 2013, we started testing Railgun, and slowly rolled it out across our three web properties. We saw immediate results. First, we saw instant reductions in time to retrieve uncached HTML documents, and as an ecommerce web property every millisecond counts....
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June 13, 2013 2:00 AM
Mirage 2.0: Solving the Mobile Browsing Speed Challenge
Almost exactly a year ago, CloudFlare announced a feature called Mirage. Mirage was designed to make the loading of images faster in two primary ways....
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March 22, 2013 9:53 PM
Page Rules Reordering Now Available
Page Rules are powerful tools for controlling how CloudFlare works on your site on a page-by-page basis. Customers customize CloudFlare with Page Rules based on their specific needs....
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March 13, 2013 4:52 PM
Cloudflare Keeps TheBayLights.org Running Bright
When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind - The Golden Gate Bridge....
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March 06, 2013 5:43 PM
Load Balancing without Load Balancers
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service. ...
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February 27, 2013 11:07 PM
How to Tell How Well Railgun Is Working for Your Site
Yesterday, we announced that 30 of the world's largest hosting providers are now supporting CloudFlare's Railgun WAN optimization technology. ...
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February 26, 2013 8:51 AM
CloudFlare's Railgun: Easier Than Ever
Over the next few days we have a number of announcements regarding CloudFlare's Railgun technology. We wanted to begin, however, with what is in some ways the end: the ways in which you can take advantage of Railgun yourself....
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February 08, 2013 5:08 AM
Facebook Bug Redirects the Web Through Javascript Widget Error
You may have heard that Facebook took down a significant portion of the Internet today. A bug in their Facebook Connect script caused users to be redirected to a Facebook error page....
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February 01, 2013 10:27 PM
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....
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January 18, 2013 9:23 AM
WordPress London Meetup January 2013
Last night I gave a short presentation about how to use CloudFlare with WordPress sites to about 60 people attending the WordPress London Meetup. CloudFlare was happy to be sponsor of the event providing drinks, beers and lots and lots of pizza. The meetup was held at the Google ...
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January 07, 2013 5:38 AM
CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS Period
CloudFlare runs one of the largest networks of DNS servers in the world. Over the last few months, we've invested in making our DNS as fast and responsive as possible. We were happy to see these efforts pay off in third-party DNS test results....
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December 21, 2012 10:50 AM
Railgun in the real world: faster web page load times
To solve that problem CloudFlare came up with a delta compression technique that recognizes that even dynamically-generated or personalized pages change only a little over time or between users....
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December 17, 2012 10:59 PM
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...For Ecommerce Sites
Forecasters have estimated that online holiday shopping will account for almost 25 percent of total ecommerce sales in 2012. That's more than $54 Billion dollars in online transactions....
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December 12, 2012 6:35 PM
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible....
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December 11, 2012 5:24 PM
What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster
A little over a month ago, we published a couple of blog posts about how we were making SSL faster. Specifically, we enabled OCSP stapling across our network....
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