Seattle: CloudFlare's 17th Data Center
2012-07-27
Our ops team is on a roll! Hot on the heels of Sydney and Atlanta going live yesterday, we're happy to announce Seattle, Washington as the location of CloudFlare's 17th data center. ...
HostingCon: The Launch of our Optimized Hosting Partners program, Railgun Nerf guns, Limos, Breakfast and much more!
2012-07-26
Team CloudFlare had an incredible time at HostingCon last week - thanks to everyone for dropping by and chatting with us! We loved catching up with many of our existing partners and meeting potential new ones....
Atlanta: CloudFlare's 16th Data Center
2012-07-26
We're not slowing down! Just a few hours ago we launched Sydney, Australia as CloudFlare's 15th data center. Now our ops team just threw the switch and turned on Atlanta, Georgia as CloudFlare's 16th. I told you to stay tuned!...
Sydney, Australia: CloudFlare's 15th Data Center
2012-07-25
Over the next few weeks, CloudFlare will be significantly expanding our global network. In total, we'll be adding 9 new data centers and doubling the size of our existing facility in London. ...
Introducing: Single File Cache Purge
2012-07-14
CloudFlare has supported a way to purge your cache for the last year. Unfortunately, it was all or nothing. While that, for practical purposes, didn't cause a significant performance hit for most websites....
Thoughts on Abuse
2012-07-13
One of the behind the scenes topics we think about a lot at CloudFlare is how to handle abuse of our network. I realized that we hadn't exposed our thoughts on this clearly enough. In the next few days, we'll be making some minor updates to our Terms of Service....
CloudFlare Heads to HostingCon 2012
2012-07-13
CloudFlare is going to be at HostingCon 2012 in Boston from Sunday, July 15th to Wednesday, July 18th. We are excited to see our current partners and meet potential new partners at the show! Our team is looking forward to an extremely busy conference....
Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)
2012-07-05
Time To First Byte is often used as a measure of how quickly a web server responds to a request and common web testing services report it. The faster it is, the better the web server (in theory). ...
Go at CloudFlare
2012-07-03
The other day I blogged here about our new Railgun software that speeds up the back haul between CloudFlare data centers and our clients' servers. At CloudFlare we're using a number of different languages depending on the task....
Making Edge Side Includes (ESI) Automatic and Easy
2012-07-03
On HTTP, caching is done at the file level. A browser will cache the JPEG, CSS, and Javascript files on a page. However, the HTML of most pages is dynamically generated. As a result, the pages cannot be cached. ...
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
2012-07-02
CloudFlare recently rolled out a premium service called Railgun that's available to CloudFlare Business and Enterprise customers. Railgun is web optimization software that's designed to speed up the delivery of content that cannot be cached....
Protecting CloudFlare sites from phishing
2012-07-01
As the internet has grown, phishing attacks have continued to be a problem. While better awareness and focus on security has helped reduce their number, the RSA and other services tracking phishing still show that somewhere between 20-30,000 phishing attacks generally occur every month. ...
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
2012-06-30
A huge storm rolled across the eastern United States last night, topping trees and knocking out power. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had one of their primary data centers in Virginia lose power. ...
How to make SSL fast
2012-06-29
HTTP, the protocol of the web, is unencrypted by default. That means it is trivial for someone using the same local network as you to spy on all the data you send to and receive from most websites. ...
Why mobile performance is difficult
2012-06-28
Mobile web browsing is very different, at the network level, to browsing on a desktop machine connected to the Internet. Yet both use the very same protocols, and although TCP was designed to perform well on the fixed-line Internet, it doesn't perform as well on mobile networks. ...
Dome9 + CloudFlare = Combined Security For Your Website and Web Server
2012-06-27
Dome9 is a new kind of security management service that protects your cloud or hosted server firewall, including all the admin services for all your server's applications (e.g., phpMyAdmin). It's a great complement to the web security that CloudFlare provides....
App: Trumpet Offers Simple, Consistent Notification to Site Visitors
2012-06-26
Say hello to Trumpet. Trumpet is a simple CloudFlare App that lets you place a short message on top of every page on your site. You turn it on, and when you want to tell your users something, you enter a message that will show up the next time the user loads your site....
What makes SPDY speedy?
2012-06-25
Google has proposed a new protocol for downloading web pages called SPDY and CloudFlare will shortly be making it available in beta form. SPDY is designed to make web browsing faster without replacing HTTP. ...
The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
2012-06-21
Suppose you needed to transfer 1TB of data (perhaps your home movie collection) from San Francisco to London. What would be the fastest route? Put the disk on British Airways flight 286 at SFO, or transfer it across the Internet using a 100 Mbps connection?...
A note about Kerckhoff's Principle
2012-06-19
The other day I wrote a long post describing in detail how we used to and how we now store customer passwords. Some people were surprised that we were open about this....