CloudFlare protects Einstein's brain!
September 25, 2012 10:20 PM
CloudFlare protects a lot of websites - from eCommerce websites to blogs to SMBs to government sites, and everything in between....
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
September 17, 2012 8:17 PM
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker. ...
SmartErrors: Decrease Your Site's Bounce Rate
September 05, 2012 4:08 PM
Visitors dread them, publishers fear them and we've all seen them. Page Not Found errors (also known as 404s) are a common occurrence on the web where content is constantly created and discarded. However, few things increase a site's bounce rate faster. ...
Turning "I'm Under Attack" into "I'm Doing Some Good"
August 28, 2012 5:44 PM
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack mode allows our customers to, at the click of a button, tell us that they are experiencing an attack and enable automatic protection. It works by slowing down visits to the web site that's under attack and performing extra work to identify malicious visitors. ...
Saturday Night Fever: Layer 7 attacks against CloudFlare sites
August 16, 2012 8:58 AM
Recently, I've taken a look at DDoS attacks against CloudFlare sites at the IP level and the source of those attacks. The worst time for those DDoS attacks is the Wednesday Witching Hour and because of source IP address forgery most of the attacks seem to come from Mars. ...
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August 05, 2012 7:33 PM
Always Online v.2
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....
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August 03, 2012 3:06 PM
The Wednesday Witching Hour: CloudFlare DoS Statistics
Data from inside CloudFlare's network shows that over 40% of the time there's a denial of service attack happening and directed at us. And that's just up to network layer 4 (i.e. it doesn't include more sophisticated attacks targeting applications themselves at layer 7)....
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May 20, 2012 10:33 PM
DNSChanger Update: Nearly 4% of Infections Already Detected
Just a quick update on the initiative between CloudFlare, OpenDNS, and the DCWG to clean up the DNSChanger malware. In the last week, just over 11,000 websites enabled the Visitor DNSChanger Detector App through CloudFlare....
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April 11, 2012 11:12 PM
Introducing: I'm Under Attack Mode
CloudFlare provides a broad level of protection from a wide range of attacks. We do this while minimizing false positives or annoyances to legitimate customers. CloudFlare didn't begin as a DDoS mitigation service, but we've rapidly found that we are good at it....
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February 20, 2012 11:57 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control. ...
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January 26, 2012 11:33 PM
TODAY Show Traffic Spike No Problem For Khataland
Today comes every day. But promotion on the TODAY Show comes along rarely, if at all. The TODAY Show is the top morning TV show in America, with more than 5 million viewers each day....
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December 21, 2011 11:04 PM
2011: The Year of the DDoS
As the year comes to a close, we've been assembling trend data for 2011. One of the most interesting has been the rise of denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Controlling for CloudFlare's growth, we've seen a 700% increase in DDoS attacks over the course of the year....
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December 15, 2011 12:28 AM
Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?
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?...
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November 16, 2011 6:59 PM
SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets
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....
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November 08, 2011 4:34 AM
Wow, That's Fast! Instant DNS Updates and More...
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....
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May 16, 2011 7:34 PM
Zone Apex / Naked Domain / Root Domain CNAME Support for Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Other Cloud Hosts
CloudFlare now supports CNAME Flattening, which is a better solution to this same problem. Read more in our knowledge base. ...
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December 06, 2010 11:50 PM
Always Online: Because Downtime Sucks
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. ...
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