2011-02-11
Many of our recent blog posts have had to do with helping customers navigate the CloudFlare service effectively. Staying wit that theme, we wanted to review some of the most frequently used CloudFlare settings that people use (or need to know about) on the CloudFlare 'Settings' page. ...
2011-02-04
I run a small technology firm and write on my blog GabeArnold.com I focus on techniques and technology that help small business owners grow and succeed in a rapid and measurable manner. CloudFlare meets my criteria as a reliable tool for small business owners and freelancers....
2011-02-03
Today is Groundhog Day: the day on which a groundhog (named Phil) crawls out of his hole in Punxsutawney, PA and either sees his shadow, meaning we're in for six more weeks of winter, or does not, in which case it will be an early spring. Phil's official keeper is the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. ...
2011-01-29
CloudFlare gets quite a bit of traffic from Egypt -- the country is consistently in the top-20 originators of visitors to our network. That is, until last night when Egypt shut down the Internet. Here is a graph showing traffic to our network from Egypt. ...
2011-01-21
My name is Ruben Orozco, and I'm the Founder of Tweetfind.com. When I'm not working on @TweetFind.com, a Twitter directory to bring Consumers and Businesses together, I work as a Computer Administrator for a High School in Santa Barbara, CA....
2011-01-19
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......
2011-01-14
One of the benefits of CloudFlare is that it provides broad, effective security for any website. CloudFlare is a first line of defense against all sorts of threats from comment spammers to automated crawlers that don't follow robots.txt....
2011-01-05
CloudFlare protects your website from malicious attacks by stopping the request before it reaches your server. Often these requests are from automated bots crawling your website looking for a vulnerability. Sometimes, the threat is a web surfer whose computer has been compromised....
2011-01-01
We were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is: 173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)...
2010-12-21
Since signing up for any new service can often lead to a number of questions, I created a guide of things you should know after activating CloudFlare....
2010-12-17
We generate a lot of logs. To give you some sense, across the CloudFlare network every minute we write a half a Gigabyte of just log data. Collecting, reducing, sorting, and displaying that data back to you is one of the biggest challenges of running a service like CloudFlare....
2010-12-15
It is no secret -- there are many benefits of having a fast website. The faster your website loads, the longer a visitor is likely to stay. The actual stat is that for every 100ms, you lose 1% of your visitors....
2010-12-09
My blog was frequently coming under heavy server load because of malicious traffic. The malicious traffic to my blog frequently brought down my dedicated server, with a server load pushing up to 100 CPU. ...
2010-12-06
As a fellow startup, it's been really painful to watch the challenges Tumblr has gone though over the last 24 hours. With any sufficiently complex system, it is inevitable that unexpected problems will arise. ...
2010-12-02
Hi there! My name is Steve Nims and I'm a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's E. Philip Saunders College of Business located in Rochester, NY. While I received my B.S. from RIT in Accounting, I've always had a passion for technology....
2010-11-12
Caching is great. Cloudflare makes sites faster in part by taking the static portions of your site and moving them closer to the visitors to your site. Cloudflare is smart about only caching static objects so you can run a dynamic, database-driven site and it will behave as you expect....
2010-11-06
Cloudflare is a service that takes a great deal of pride in listening to the feedback of our users. Cloudflare recently had a customer make a very strong case that we build a WordPress plugin for Cloudflare, something we were considering asking a developer to build. ...
2010-10-10
ICloudflare passed a big milestone yesterday: over the last 30 days we've served more than 1 billion requests. The Cloudflare network is architected to handle many, many times this level traffic, but it's still pretty amazing to realize the extent of what already powering....
2010-10-04
When Michelle, Lee, and I started working on Cloudflare back in the Winter of 2009 the plan was always to launch at TechCrunch. ...
2010-09-20
We have a new face around Cloudflare. Damon Billian came on-board in early September and is here to focus on the Cloudflare community. We believe in building a strong community since one of the powerful things about Cloudflare is that with every new site on the system, the system gets smarter....
