2012-06-04
Today, the average web page has more than 85 objects (images, Javascript, CSS, etc.) that make up more than 750 KB of data. All that data needs to be downloaded when a page loads. On the average web page, more than 50% of the data is made up of images. ...
2012-06-04
A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer. That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the network so other sites can be safe. ...
2012-06-01
For some time, the vast majority of the web has been vulnerable to the so-called BEAST SSL attack. The attack was first demonstrated in 2011, and more than 90% of the Internet including large sites like Google.com remain vulnerable to their SSL sessions being decrypted....
2012-06-01
This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack was the result of a compromise of Google's account security procedures....
2012-05-28
We've written about the challenge of classifying what is a "page view" a couple times before (see Understanding Analytics: When Is a Page View Not a Page View? and A Quick Update on Page Views)....
2012-05-24
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 is World IPv6 Day. At CloudFlare we're issuing a challenge to every site on the Internet: it's time to support IPv6 and enable the future. CloudFlare has made supporting IPv6 free and easy. ...
2012-05-24
This is the first app of its kind in the CloudFlare app marketplace and we couldn't be happier to welcome Experimently as our newest app partner. Experimently provides free heat maps (up to 5,000 visitors per month) and A/B testing for any website....
2012-05-23
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. ...
2012-05-20
Just a quick update on the initiative between CloudFlare, OpenDNS, and the DCWG to clean up the DNSChanger malware. In the last week, just over 11,000 websites enabled the Visitor DNSChanger Detector App through CloudFlare....
2012-05-19
At CloudFlare, we think a lot about the Domain Name Service -- better known as DNS, the Internet's address book. CloudFlare uses DNS to bring performance and security to our customers. ...
2012-05-10
Site monetization experts from VigLink, SayMedia and CloudFlare will be on hand to discuss the best practices for monetizing your site. They will share tips on how to boost revenue through advertising and affiliate programs, and share common pitfalls to avoid. ...
2012-05-03
Several years ago, some suspected cyber criminals on the Internet wrote a family of malware dubbed DNSChanger. About a year ago, law enforcement tracked down the suspected cyber criminals behind this malware....
2012-05-02
CloudFlare had an outage across much of our network today. The outage began at 20:19 (GMT). It affected approximately 75% of traffic to CloudFlare's network. The length of time for the outage varied depending on region, but the maximum period of downtime was approximately 15 minutes. ...
2012-05-01
No matter whether you run a personal blog or the IT operation of a corporate enterprise, you have discovered that in addition to running a web site, and updating its content or application, a web site comes with difficult operational challenges....
2012-05-01
We are excited to welcome GoSquared as the next CloudFlare app. The GoSquared team is based in London, but we were pleased to meet them on a recent visit to California. Both of us are excited to help make their real-time web analytics service incredibly easy to turn on for CloudFlare-powered sites....
2012-04-25
CloudFlare customers have websites of all sizes, so we're pleased to introduced a new advanced server monitoring and outage management service from Panopta as a CloudFlare App. ...
2012-04-18
CloudFlare's traffic grows in a number of different ways. The most obvious is that we sign up more websites. We also grow as the natural traffic to sites using CloudFlare increases as they get more popular themselves. ...
2012-04-16
CloudFlare has partnered with a number of CloudFlare Certified Partners to make it simple for website owners that want a faster and safer website. ...
2012-04-13
SiteLock is a website security monitoring service that protects your online reputation and provides additional security to your website. There have never been more threats to your website than now....
2012-04-11
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....
