Cloudflare Keeps TheBayLights.org Running Bright
March 13, 2013 4:52 PM
When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind - The Golden Gate Bridge....
Edge Cache Expire TTL: Easiest way to override any existing headers
February 01, 2013 10:27 PM
CloudFlare makes caching easy. Our service automatically determines what files to cache based on file extensions. Performance benefits kick in automatically....
Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
December 06, 2012 9:19 AM
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....
Always Online v.2
August 05, 2012 7:33 PM
The video on CloudFlare's home page promises that we will keep your web page online "even if your server goes down." It's a feature we dubbed "Always Online" and, when it works, it's magical. The problem is, Always Online doesn't always work....
Introducing: Single File Cache Purge
July 14, 2012 5:51 AM
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....
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July 02, 2012 5:44 AM
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
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....
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June 21, 2012 6:29 AM
The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
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?...
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February 22, 2012 6:24 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
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September 25, 2011 12:45 AM
We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!
I was just looking over our daily stats report and noticed something incredible. In the last 30 days, CloudFlare saved our users more than half a petabyte of data they would have otherwise had to transfer from their servers....
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July 13, 2011 9:40 PM
CloudFlare's Free CDN and You
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....
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June 09, 2011 10:59 PM
How CloudFlare Rocket Loader Redefines the Modern CDN
At CloudFlare, we built our own CDN from the ground up. We used the latest technologies like solid state drives and Anycast routing and geo load balancing to make it as fast and efficient as possible....
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February 11, 2011 1:53 AM
CloudFlare Tips: Frequently used CloudFlare settings
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. ...
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November 12, 2010 1:34 AM
Introducing the Cloudflare Cache Purge Feature
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 e...
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