Welcome, Old Friend, Media Temple
2011-08-08
CloudFlare launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2010. When you walked in the front door of that conference, the first booth you came to was the one for Media Temple. ...
Translate Your CloudFlare Site
2011-08-05
I want to share some exciting news and an interesting story. Let's start with the news. CloudFlare has users all around the world and so we are thrilled to announce that our service is now available in 27 languages. ...
Avoid Losing SEO Link Juice to Traditional CDNs
2011-08-04
One of the problems with many traditional CDNs it that they require you to rewrite the URLs of your static resources to point to a third party domain. This is problematic for two reasons: one obvious, one less obvious....
10 Billion Page Views
2011-07-29
About an hour ago we crossed 10 billion page views having been powered by CloudFlare over the last 30 days. That means more than 13% of worldwide Internet visitors passed through our network at least once in the last month. ...
Google Page Speed and CloudFlare
2011-07-28
This morning Google launched a limited new service they're calling Google Page Speed. We've known they've been working on this service for some time and are friends with several of the members of the Google speed team who helped build it. ...
Is Your Site Able To Handle A 'Bieber Effect' Moment?
2011-07-28
For better or worse, most of you have probably heard of Justin Bieber by now. Besides being a teenage pop music phenomenon, he is also one of the most influential celebrities when it comes to social media. ...
Rejected CloudFlare Logos
2011-07-27
Early in CloudFlare's history we realized we needed a logo. Years before we started CloudFlare, I'd met Lindon Leader at a Chamber of Commerce event in Park City, Utah. Lindon is probably one of the leading brand identity designers of the last 50 years....
At the Risk of Tooting Our Own Horn...
2011-07-27
Kevin, the visual designer who recently joined CloudFlare's team, pulled together this graph the other day. Even having lived through the last 10 months, it's still incredible to see them represented here. ...
SSL on Custom Domains for AppEngine and Other Cloud Services
2011-07-22
Note: this post is deprecated. While it worked for a while, AppEngine made a change on their side that caused it to break. Rather than playing wack-a-mole with a brittle solution, we decided to create something that would work for the long term and across a wider range or services....
Apps: Over 14,000 Installs
2011-07-22
Two months ago, our CEO Matthew Prince shared news about CloudFlare's growth, Rocket Loader, and CloudFlare Apps (video) at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. Today, we'd like to update you about CloudFlare Apps....
Breaking the Cycle of Malware
2011-07-20
Google did something terrific yesterday. They began notifying users with a certain kind of malware running on their PCs that they had a problem and linked them to tools to help clean it up. While it is currently limited, we think this is an important step by Google....
Cloudflare and E-commerce sites
2011-07-18
We get a number of questions about using CloudFlare with e-commerce sites in customer service. CloudFlare works great at making e-commerce sites faster and protecting them against attacks. I thought I would try to address many of the key questions....
Enabling Google Analytics on Your WordPress.com Blog
2011-07-15
As is common for many people these days, I write a blog: OneFortyWines.com. Yay for me, right? I do this because I am passionate about wine, and I think that people who read the site find it interesting. The problem is that I don't *know *if they do or not....
The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth
2011-07-14
Back in 1992, I was part of a small team of students at Trinity College that helped build what turned out to be one of the first, if not the first, online-only magazines. It was an evolution of an email newsletter, the brain child of Peter Adams and Paul Tesco, called the Trincoll Journal....
CloudFlare's Free CDN and You
2011-07-13
CloudFlare gets a lot of questions about caching and our free CDN (content delivery network), so I thought I would put together a really quick guide about what CloudFlare caches and more....
Growing Cloudflare
2011-07-12
Last September, CloudFlare launched and our world turned upside down. It turns out that webmasters worldwide had been waiting for a way to make their sites twice as fast and protect them from online threats. And, it turned out, if you give web admins a simple, easy-to-use interface......
Understanding Analytics: When Is a Page View Not a Page View?
2011-07-08
CloudFlare provides a unique view into the traffic data for the sites that use our service. Since all traffic to those sites pass through our network, we log these requests. In a typical minute, we'll generate several millions of log lines representing all the traffic to sites on our network....
App #16 - CodeGuard Website Backup Service
2011-06-29
CodeGuard takes a compelling idea -- automatic website backup -- and makes it happen without further thought. That peace of mind keeps site owners sleeping easily, and it's just the most compelling of the service's offerings. ...
App #15 - GlobalSign HackAlert Malware Detection
2011-06-28
Your website security comes in many layers, against many threats. But how do you know if your site has a problem? Once you know, how do you solve the problem, to protect your customers and your reputation? ...
CloudFlare Supports Swedish Teenage Hacker!
2011-06-26
In June we had planned on releasing a new web app every business day. When we got to the start of this last week, however, we realized that we had gotten ahead of our app developer partners and no one would be ready in time to release. ...