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CloudFlare Selected as a 2012 Technology Pioneer
CloudFlare is excited to announce our selection as a 2012 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The Forum's Technology Pioneers represent the most innovative companies worldwide, poised to...
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Globalsign, CloudFlare & Hacking SSL
CloudFlare partners with GlobalSign in order to support SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections through our network. Earlier this week, there were allegations that GlobalSign may have been compromised in...
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Pizza, Prizes & Apps at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
CloudFlare launched about a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. It's been a pretty incredible year, and it all began at that conference. We're big fans of TechCrunch (even if we lost the competition to...
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Favris is CloudFlare Winner at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Ram, Chris, and Ian at 5am Sunday morningEarly Saturday afternoon, hundreds of hackers filled tables in a cavernous building in San Francisco, staking out their power cords and testing the Internet...
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CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
Editor's Note: Some of you may be asking why CloudFlare is using an image of a tiger for something related to the CloudFlare API. Since Ian Pye of CloudFlare is our API lead, I asked Ian what image he...
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App: Blitz.io Makes Performance and Load Testing Easy
Blitz.io is a self service load and performance testing platform. It's a new offering from Mu Dynamics, leaders in the application testing space, and we're thrilled to make Blitz instantly available to...
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We Saved Users Half a Petabyte Last Month!
I was just looking over our daily stats report and noticed something incredible. In the last 30 days, CloudFlare saved our users more than half a petabyte of data they would have otherwise had to...
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Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway
CloudFlare launched publicly exactly one year ago today. In that year, we have grown from virtually no traffic to powering more than 15 billion page views for 350 million unique visitors in the last...
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Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new...
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App: Dome9 Automates Secure Access to Your Servers
Security Beyond Web TrafficCloudFlare protects your website, scrubbing your web traffic from unwanted visitors and attacks. But not all traffic to a server is web traffic. For instance, SSH, FTP and...
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CloudFlare's Middle Earth Adventure
In the summer of 2010, before CloudFlare's public launch, we took the team (only 6 of us at the time) to Vegas to celebrate our first 100 websites. This summer, we crossed more than 100,000 websites...
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Wall Street Journal: CloudFlare the Most Innovative Network & Internet...
We just got word that the Wall Street Journal named CloudFlare the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011. The WSJ received more than 600 entries from companies in 31...
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Robust, Free DNS FTW
Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain that humans can read (example.com) into...
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Stayin' Alive
We've been making a lot of improvements deep within CloudFlare that you'll start to see the benefits of over the coming weeks. As the changes graduate from our tests to full production, we'll try and...
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New Pages
We like the Spartan feel of our site, but one of the requests that a number of people have requested is more detail on how CloudFlare works. We've quietly been adding more detail on various pages...
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A Brief Primer on Anycast
I wrote a blog post the other day about CloudFlare's globally distributed DNS infrastructure and how each ninja name server we give you when you signup doesn't represent just one machine, but instead a...
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Tales From The Pumpkin Patch
Last week CloudFlare received a call from the team at The Pumpkin Lady. They are currently preparing for their busiest week of the year and were looking to CloudFlare to help with their increase in...
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Easiest SSL Ever, Now Included Automatically with Every Paid Plan
SSL today is too hard. While it's something every website should support, even for the technically savvy, getting a SSL certificate properly installed on your web server can be daunting. Moreover,...
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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...
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Groovy Baby! CloudFlare's London Data Center Now Online
As our network map will soon indicate, CloudFlare's London (LHR) data center is now online. The team started routing traffic through it this beginning at 12:13 GMT. We're already doing more than 1Gbps...
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