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....
CloudFlare's 2012: Happy New Year!
2013-01-01
For about half the world (and about half of CloudFlare's data centers) it's already 2013. As our team (most of whom are in San Francisco) get ready to celebrate New Year's Eve, wanted to quickly look back on CloudFlare's 2012. ...
Optimizing Your Linux Stack for Maximum Mobile Web Performance
2012-12-31
We spend a lot of time at CloudFlare thinking about how to make the Internet fast on mobile devices. Currently there are over 1.2 billion active mobile users and that number is growing rapidly....
App: GamaSec Web Application Security and Vulnerability Scanning
2012-12-22
We enjoy working with companies who share a focus on website security. When GamaSec, an online web vulnerability-assessment service, inquired about ways to integrate...
Railgun in the real world: faster web page load times
2012-12-21
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....
Hackers love the holidays
2012-12-21
Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays....
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...For Ecommerce Sites
2012-12-17
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....
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
2012-12-12
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....
What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster
2012-12-11
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....
App: iubenda generates fast, easy, simple privacy policies
2012-12-10
Almost every website needs a privacy policy. In most countries, it's legally required, and it helps build trust with visitors. ...
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
2012-12-08
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules......
Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
2012-12-06
With the widespread adoption of high bandwidth Internet connections in the home, offices and on mobile devices, limitations in available bandwidth to download web pages have largely been eliminated....
CloudFlare and Parallels to Bring Website Performance and Security to Millions of SMBs
2012-12-04
In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization....
Syrian Internet access reestablished starting 1432 UTC
2012-12-01
Syria has reestablished partial connectivity to the Internet. The following map of BGP connectivity shows Syria's 29386 network connected to multiple networks outside Syria....
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
2012-11-29
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. ...