Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?
December 15, 2011
I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...
SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets
November 16, 2011
The United States House of Representatives is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA. Companies including Google, Zynga, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and Mozilla, along with organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been sharply critical of the law....
Wow, That's Fast! Instant DNS Updates and More...
November 08, 2011
At CloudFlare, we're constantly trying to make things faster. To give you a sense, at our current scale, for every 1 millisecond (1/1000th of a second) we remove from requests through our network, we save a lifetime (70 years) worth of time every year....
Zone Apex / Naked Domain / Root Domain CNAME Support for Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Other Cloud Hosts
May 16, 2011
CloudFlare now supports CNAME Flattening, which is a better solution to this same problem. Read more in our knowledge base. ...
Always Online: Because Downtime Sucks
December 06, 2010
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. ...