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No Payola Here. Period.
We regularly get requests to provide a free paid account in exchange for promoting CloudFlare. I may be naive, but I was surprised to learn how many web companies go along with these arrangements — or...
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Receiving the WSJ Award for Most Innovative Internet Technology Company
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journalnamed CloudFlare the most innovative Networking & Internet Technology of 2011. We were pretty flattered given that winners from other categories included IBM...
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2 Petabytes of Bandwidth (and Real Money) Saved
Sometime on Sunday, November 13, 2011 (which was a pretty awesome day on its own, quite aside from this news) we crossed the point of having saved our users 2 petabytes of bandwidth. That's a...
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CloudFlare Product Updates: Updated WordPress Plugin, Invoices & New...
As you may have noticed recently, our engineers have been releasing a bunch of new products over the past few weeks. In addition to a vastly improved and cheaper option for adding CloudFlare SSL to...
View ArticleSOPA 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...
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CloudFlare Tips: Troubleshooting Common Problems
Debugging technical issues online can be tricky. There are many moving pieces; it can be an isolated network connection with the ISP, an issue with your server or one of CloudFlare's data centers could...
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App: PunchTab Provides Instant Site Loyalty and Rewards Program
How much do you appreciate your site's visitors? With the newest CloudFlare app, you can show them.PunchTab instantly adds a loyalty and reward program to your site, for free.Visitors connect to your...
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Global Thanks
ThanksgivingIt's almost time at CloudFlare headquarters, in San Francisco, California, USA, to celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday brings together family and friends to enjoy a meal and remember the...
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A Thanksgiving Story: Surviving the Crush of Holiday Traffic
This is the story of two things that are deeply American: post-Thanksgiving shopping and scrappy entrepreneurs.An American TraditionOn the fourth Thursday in November, the United States celebrates...
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Calling All WordPress Users - CloudFlare's Giving Away Two Tickets to...
Do you have a WordPress blog and love to have a good time? Then enter for a chance to win a ticket to one of the best WordPress events of the year - WordCamp Las Vegas! We're giving away tickets to two...
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Is Cyber Monday Real?
I wrote a post last week about Surviving Black Friday, the biggest offline shopping day of the year in the United States. However, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the United States is...
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CloudFlare Wins Audience Choice Award for Fastest Growing Cloud Computing...
During the Up 2011 Cloud Computing Conference in Mountain View, CA, Matthew Prince (CloudFlare CEO) was on hand to give a presentation about CloudFlare and discuss our growth as a nominee for the...
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And The Winners Are...
We are excited to announce three winners for the WordCamp Las Vegas ticket giveaway. The lucky winners are:Chirag Patel, Michael Scott and Ben Hebert!Congratulations winners and have a great time at...
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100 Billion Page Views
In the next few hours, CloudFlare will cross having served more than 100 billion page views over the last year. We've been growing very quickly. To give you a sense, a quarter of the total page views...
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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?CloudFlare sees traffic for hundreds of thousands...
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CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
I originally wrote this article for the Web Performance Calendar website, which is a terrific resource of expert opinions on making your website as fast as possible. We thought CloudFlare users would...
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App: Goodbye Apture, Hello Highlight
The Problem: Apture DisappearingSince its June introduction as a CloudFlare App, Apture's contextual search service has been popular. Thousands of CloudFlare customers installed the app.In November, we...
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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...
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App: ShareAndTell Pro Makes Sweepstakes Easy
ShareAndTell Pro is a social sweepstakes and rewards platform that lets you set up giveaways on your website and Facebook page. ShareAndTell Pro is now available as a CloudFlare App.Easy Is...
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CloudFlare Has Been Nominated for a Crunchie!
CloudFlare is a Crunchie finalist in the category for Best Cloud Service in 2011. We need your help and your vote to win the category! The Crunchies are supported by VentureBeat, TechCrunch and GigaOm....
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