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Rejected CloudFlare Logos
Early in CloudFlare's history we realized we needed a logo. Years before we started CloudFlare, I'd met Lindon Leader at a Chamber of Commerce event in Park City, Utah. Lindon is probably one of the...
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Is Your Site Able To Handle A 'Bieber Effect' Moment?
For better or worse, most of you have probably heard of Justin Bieber by now. Besides being a teenage pop music phenomenon, he is also one of the most influential celebrities when it comes to social...
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Google Page Speed and CloudFlare
This morning Google launched a limited new service they're calling Google Page Speed. We've known they've been working on this service for some time and are friends with several of the members of the...
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10 Billion Page Views
We're ending the week on a high. About an hour ago we crossed 10 billion page views having been powered by CloudFlare over the last 30 days. Those pages were served to about 250 million unique...
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CloudFlare and HostingCon
CloudFlare is going to be at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego from August 8 to August 10. The CloudFlare team is excited to meet our current partners and potential new partners at the show.CloudFlare has...
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Avoid Losing SEO Link Juice to Traditional CDNs
One of the problems with many traditional CDNs it that they require you to rewrite the URLs of your static resources to point to a third party domain. This is problematic for two reasons: one obvious,...
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Translate Your CloudFlare Site
On this Friday afternoon, I want to share some exciting news and an interesting story. Let's start with the news.The NewsCloudFlare has users all around the world and so we are thrilled to announce...
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Welcome, Old Friend, Media Temple
CloudFlare launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2010. When you walked in the front door of that conference, the first booth you came to was the one for Media Temple. We immediately...
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The CLAMP Stack
Much of the modern Internet is built on what is known as the LAMP Stack. LAMP originally stood for Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP. You'll find this basic stack at the core of companies like Google,...
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Pronounce: CloudFlare's Latest Free App
CloudFlare's latest app lets your users read your website aloud. Pronounce is a free app that takes advantage of Microsoft's translation tools. Once enabled, your users can select any block of text up...
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Exiled EveryDNS Users Welcome at CloudFlare!
Much of what I know about DNS I learned from David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS. We're a big supporter of OpenDNS at CloudFlare, and John Roberts, an early OpenDNS employee, now works on our team....
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SXSW Panel Picker: Powered by CloudFlare
Each year, the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Conferences (sxsw.com) solicit session ideas from the community for the upcoming event using PanelPicker (panelpicker.sxsw.com). After submissions are...
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EveryDNS Magic Data Liberation Bookmarklet
At CloudFlare, we believe in giving control back to website owners. This includes the idea that our users' data is theirs. One of the first functions we built was the ability for CloudFlare users to...
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CloudFlare Tips: Speeding up your WordPress blog
WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform on CloudFlare, with many WordPress users taking advantage of the fact that CloudFlare's free CDN can help speed up their sites by caching static...
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Welcome Citizens of CloudFland!
We crossed a milestone today: 312M people passed through CloudFlare's network in the last 30 days. That may seem like a strange number for a milestone, but it also happens to be the total population of...
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Apache Killer Killed: Zero Day Exploit, Zero Day Fix
Early this morning word spread that there was a zero day exploit dubbed the "Apache Killer." The exploit uses malformed Apache byte-range headers to crash the web server. The exploit is effective...
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Haileo App Matches Contextual Ads to Images and Video
Make Money from Your Images and VideoAt CloudFlare, we appreciate deep technology applied to solve hard problems in an easy-to-use manner. Our newest CloudFlare App, does just that: Haileo helps you...
View ArticleCome On Irene: Surviving a Hurricane
As you may have heard, there's a hurricane (Irene) about to hit the east coast of the United States. We just got word from our data center in Ashburn, VA that they have taken precautions to help...
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CloudFlare Tips: Top Tips when activating through a CloudFlare Hosting Partner
CloudFlare is a service that utilizes proprietary technology to make websites run safer and faster around the world. We currently run 12 data centers (with more on the way) on three continents to...
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A Quick Update on Page Views
About a month ago I wrote a blog post titled:When Is a Page View Not a Page ViewIt explained how CloudFlare counted page views differently than beacon-based analytics systems like Google Analytics....
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