CloudFlare Expanding the IPv6 Web
2012-01-12
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. ...
What Is CloudFlare?
2012-01-06
I just got off the phone with a reporter. Like many reporters or analysts we talk to, she wanted to put CloudFlare into a defined category. Specifically, she wanted to call us a content delivery network (CDN) and compare us with companies like Akamai or Amazon's CloudFront. ...
CloudFlare Has Been Nominated for a Crunchie!
2012-01-05
CloudFlare is a Crunchie finalist in the category for Best Cloud Service in 2011. We need your help and your vote to win the category! The Crunchies are supported by VentureBeat, TechCrunch and GigaOm. ...
App: ShareAndTell Pro Makes Sweepstakes Easy
2012-01-04
ShareAndTell Pro is a social sweepstakes and rewards platform that lets you set up giveaways on your website and Facebook page. ShareAndTell Pro is now available as a CloudFlare App. ...
2011: The Year of the DDoS
2011-12-21
As the year comes to a close, we've been assembling trend data for 2011. One of the most interesting has been the rise of denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Controlling for CloudFlare's growth, we've seen a 700% increase in DDoS attacks over the course of the year....
App: Goodbye Apture, Hello Highlight
2011-12-19
Since its June introduction as a CloudFlare App, Apture's contextual search service has been popular. Thousands of CloudFlare customers installed the app. In November, we heard that Apture was shutting down their service, as part of their acquisition by Google. ...
CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
2011-12-16
In 2004, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot. The site, which tracks online fraud and abuse, primarily consists of web pages that report the reputation of IP addresses. ...
Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?
2011-12-15
I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...
100 Billion Page Views
2011-12-09
In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a quarter of the total page views for the year (about 25 billion) has come in just the last 30 days....
And The Winners Are...
2011-12-09
We are excited to announce three winners for the WordCamp Las Vegas ticket giveaway. The lucky winners are: Chirag Patel, Michael Scott and Ben Hebert! Congratulations winners and have a great time at WordCamp Las Vegas. ...
CloudFlare Wins Audience Choice Award for Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company
2011-12-06
During the Up 2011 Cloud Computing Conference in Mountain View, CA, Matthew Prince (CloudFlare CEO) was on hand to give a presentation about CloudFlare and discuss our growth as a nominee for the Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company award....
Is Cyber Monday Real?
2011-12-02
I wrote a post last week about Surviving Black Friday, the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the United States is said to be the Monday after Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday....
Calling All WordPress Users - CloudFlare's Giving Away Two Tickets to WordCamp Las Vegas!
2011-12-01
Do you have a WordPress blog and love to have a good time? Then enter for a chance to win a ticket to one of the best WordPress events of the year - WordCamp Las Vegas! We're giving away tickets to two lucky WordPress users....
A Thanksgiving Story: Surviving the Crush of Holiday Traffic
2011-11-24
This is the story of two things that are deeply American: post-Thanksgiving shopping and scrappy entrepreneurs. On the fourth Thursday in November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. The Friday after, known as Black Friday, is considered the official start of the holiday shopping season. ...
Global Thanks
2011-11-24
It's almost time at CloudFlare headquarters, in San Francisco, California, USA, to celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday brings together family and friends to enjoy a meal and remember the people and events for which we are grateful....
App: PunchTab Provides Instant Site Loyalty and Rewards Program
2011-11-19
How much do you appreciate your site's visitors? With the newest CloudFlare app, you can show them. PunchTab instantly adds a loyalty and reward program to your site, for free....
Cloudflare Tips: Troubleshooting Common Problems
2011-11-18
Debugging technical issues online can be tricky. There are many moving pieces; it can be an isolated network connection with the ISP, an issue with your server or one of CloudFlare's data centers could be temporarily having a problem....
SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets
2011-11-16
The United States House of Representatives is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA. Companies including Google, Zynga, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and Mozilla, along with organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been sharply critical of the law....
CloudFlare Product Updates: Updated WordPress Plugin, Invoices & New CloudFlare IP addresses
2011-11-15
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 changes....
2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved
2011-11-14
Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a staggering amount of data. ...