Introducing SSL for SaaS
April 19, 2017 1:03 PM
If you’re running a SaaS company, you know how important it is that your application is performant, highly available, and hardened against attack. ...
Cloudflare Rate Limiting - Insight, Control, and Mitigation against Layer 7 DDoS Attacks
April 13, 2017 8:34 PM
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. ...
Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
March 15, 2017 2:00 PM
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....
Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick
January 12, 2017 6:00 AM
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....
Announcing New Features To Help Hosting Providers Run Their Own Reliable DNS Infrastructure
October 06, 2016 4:01 PM
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 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
It used to be difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site. Then along came 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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September 20, 2016 1:04 PM
Introducing TLS 1.3
The encrypted Internet is about to become a whole lot snappier. When it comes to browsing, we’ve been driving around in a beat-up car from the 90s for a while. Little does anyone know, we’re all about to trade in our station wagons for a smoking new sports car. ...
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August 25, 2016 4:01 PM
You Can Finally Get More Page Rules For 5 For $5
Since CloudFlare launched Page Rules in 2012, our Free, Pro and Business users have been asking for a way to get more Page Rules without committing to the next plan up. Starting today, anyone on CloudFlare can add 5 additional Page Rules for just $5/month....
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May 09, 2016 9:48 PM
Sunsetting API v1 In Favor Of CloudFlare’s Current Client API: API v4
Today we’re announcing the sunsetting of CloudFlare’s first client API, API v1. Starting November 9th, 2016 at noon Pacific Time (20:00 UTC), CloudFlare will no longer be supporting API v1....
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May 05, 2016 1:00 PM
Everybody gets WebSockets
Two summers ago, with a seemed-big-at-the-time network of 28 datacenters, not long after introducing Medellin, CloudFlare introduced support for WebSockets, initially for our Enterprise customers....
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May 03, 2016 11:40 AM
Introducing CloudFlare Origin CA
In the fall of 2014 CloudFlare launched Universal SSL and doubled the number of sites on the Internet accessible via HTTPS. In just a few days we issued certificates protecting millions of our customers’ domains and became the easiest way to secure your website with SSL/TLS....
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May 02, 2016 5:00 PM
Stronger protection and more control over security settings with CloudFlare’s new cPanel plugin
CloudFlare has released a new version of our plugin for cPanel with two new features and more control over the security settings of your website....
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April 28, 2016 1:00 PM
Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push
Last November, we rolled out HTTP/2 support for all our customers. At the time, HTTP/2 was not in wide use, but more than 88k of the Alexa 2 million websites are now HTTP/2-enabled....
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April 19, 2016 4:15 PM
Today Is A Big Day For Page Rules
Today we're releasing a whole suite of upgrades to page rules: API support, additional settings, pausing a page rule and a mobile-friendly design. ...
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April 13, 2016 4:59 PM
New for Virtual DNS Customers: Self-Service Dashboard and APIs, and Two New Features
Today we're launching two new features and a brand new dashboard and API for Virtual DNS. Virtual DNS is CloudFlare’s DNS proxy that sits in front of some of the largest hosting providers in the world, shielding their DNS infrastructure from attacks....
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