Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
Unmetered Mitigation: DDoS Protection Without Limits
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
Delivering Dot
September 10, 2017 5:04 PM
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator). F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a shared Anycast. This document reviews how F-Root has performed since that date in March 2017. The DNS root servers are an important utility provided to all clients on the Internet for free - all F root instances includin...
Getting started with Cloudflare Apps
July 12, 2017 8:24 PM
We recently launched our new Cloudflare Apps platform, and love to see the community it is building. In an effort to help people who run web services such as websites, APIs and more, we would like to help make your web services faster, safer and more reliable....
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May 18, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
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May 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Introducing Load Balancing & Intelligent Failover with Cloudflare
Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. ...
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April 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras. We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks....
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April 19, 2017 1:03 PM
Introducing SSL for SaaS
If you’re running a SaaS company, you know how important it is that your application is performant, highly available, and hardened against attack. ...
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April 13, 2017 8:34 PM
Cloudflare Rate Limiting - Insight, Control, and Mitigation against Layer 7 DDoS Attacks
Today, Cloudflare is extending its Rate Limiting service by allowing any of our customers to sign up. Our Enterprise customers have enjoyed the benefits of Cloudflare’s Rate Limiting offering for the past several months. ...
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March 15, 2017 2:00 PM
Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web....
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January 12, 2017 6:00 AM
Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick
We've predicted that more than half of the traffic to Cloudflare's network will come from mobile devices. Even if they are formatted to be displayed on a small screen, the mobile web is built on traditional web protocols and technologies that were designed for desktop....
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October 06, 2016 4:01 PM
Announcing New Features To Help Hosting Providers Run Their Own Reliable DNS Infrastructure
Over the last six years, we’ve built the tooling, infrastructure and expertise to run a DNS network that handles our scale - we’ve answered a few million DNS queries in the few seconds since you started reading this....
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September 30, 2016 5:42 AM
Introducing Dedicated SSL Certificates
When we launched Universal SSL in September 2014 we eliminated the costly and confusing process of securing a website or application with SSL, and replaced it with one free step: sign up for Cloudflare....
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September 29, 2016 4:47 PM
Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details
Cloudflare's investment into building a large global network protects our customers from DDoS attacks, secures them with our Web Application Firewall and Universal SSL, as well as improving performance through our CDN and the many network-level optimizations we're constantly iter...
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September 29, 2016 2:04 PM
Control your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare
Today, we're introducing two new Cloudflare Traffic products to give customers control over how Cloudflare’s edge network handles their traffic, allowing them to shape and direct it for their specific needs....
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September 24, 2016 3:46 PM
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP....
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September 22, 2016 2:34 PM
Fixing the mixed content problem with Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
Long ago it was difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site. Then along came services like CloudFlare’s Universal SSL that made switching from http:// to https:// as easy as clicking a button. ...
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September 21, 2016 3:51 PM
Opportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. ...
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