Page Rules Reordering Now Available
2013-03-22
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....
Leading Experts Weigh in on Industry Trends at Parallels Summit 2013
2013-03-22
Last month we attended Parallels Summit to meet with new and existing partners, and hear from leading experts on the latest industry trends. ...
The DDoS That Knocked Spamhaus Offline (And How We Mitigated It)
2013-03-20
At CloudFlare, we deal with large DDoS attacks every day. Usually, these attacks are directed at large companies or organizations that are reluctant to talk about their details. Sometimes a customer is willing to let us tell their story....
Cloudflare Keeps TheBayLights.org Running Bright
2013-03-13
When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind - The Golden Gate Bridge....
Go London User Group
2013-03-07
We've mentioned before that we're using Go internally for projects such as Railgun (and a new DNS server and SSL infrastructure amongst other things). ...
Load Balancing without Load Balancers
2013-03-06
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service. ...
Today's Outage Post Mortem
2013-03-03
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy....
CloudFlare London: We're hiring
2013-02-28
When we talk about international expansion we're usually talking about adding data centers around the world. The last one we added was in Seoul, South Korea....
How to Tell How Well Railgun Is Working for Your Site
2013-02-27
Yesterday, we announced that 30 of the world's largest hosting providers are now supporting CloudFlare's Railgun WAN optimization technology. ...
CloudFlare's Railgun: Easier Than Ever
2013-02-26
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....
Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
2013-02-22
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple. ...
When the Attackers Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right
2013-02-14
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack Mode (IUAM) is elegantly simple. When a site is under an application layer (Layer 7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the mode will return a challenge page to a visitor. ...
Facebook Bug Redirects the Web Through Javascript Widget Error
2013-02-08
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....
New "Lucky Thirteen" SSL Vulnerabilities: CloudFlare Users Protected
2013-02-04
CloudFlare often gets early word of new vulnerabilities before they are released. Last week we got word that today (Monday, February 4, 2013) there would be a new SSL vulnerability announced. ...
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
2013-02-01
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....
WordPress London Meetup January 2013
2013-01-18
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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 Campus....
CloudFlare Heading to Parallels Summit 2013
2013-01-17
CloudFlare is heading to Parallels Summit in Las Vegas on Monday, February 4th to Wednesday, February 6th. We look forward to meeting and reconnecting with service providers and providing complimentary limo rides between the airport and the Caesars Palace hotel....
Today's System-Wide Upgrade
2013-01-11
Today from 21:00 - 23:00 UTC CloudFlare scheduled a maintenance window. During that time, CloudFlare's interface was offline. While it was only two hours of time (and we finished a bit early, at 22:16 UTC) what went on during that window had been in the works for several months. ...
App: Clearspike automates search engine optimization
2013-01-09
You care about your website, and you want it to be found. For many visitors, finding your website starts with search engines. Together, Google, Bing, Baidu and others are huge sources of traffic for every website....
CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS Period
2013-01-07
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....