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What Is CloudFlare?
I just got off the phone with a reporter. Like many reporters or analysts we talk to, she wanted to put CloudFlare into a defined category. Specifically, she wanted to call us a content delivery...
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CloudFlare Expanding the IPv6 Web
We regularly monitor the Alexa top 1 million websites for trends. Specifically, we've been tracking how many of them support IPv6 connections. The numbers are still low but have been improving. About...
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Introducing CloudFlare's Stop Censorship App
CloudFlare, as a service, illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet better. Unfortunately, some current legislation up for consideration in the United States illustrates the power of...
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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.So, when the...
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On January 26, CloudFlare joined the "World IPv6 Launch" being organized by The Internet Society. If you haven't heard about it, it is an effort to encourage companies commit to "permanently enable...
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CloudFlare's Miami Data Center Now Online
We're happy to announce that CloudFlare's Miami data center is now online. Our 14th data center has been in the works for some time now. The new facility, which is among our largest, will serve much of...
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CloudFlare at Parallels Summit
CloudFlare is going to be at the Parallels Summit in Orlando next week, February 14-16. We are offering complimentary limousine transfers from the Orlando International Airport (MCO) to the Gaylord...
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CloudFlare Is a Community
Today, CloudFlare adds more than 250 new customers every six hours or so, but getting our first 250 took several months and a lot of faith from our earliest adopters. When we started working on...
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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, you can toggle the little...
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Introducing Page Rules: URL Forwarding
In the last blog post, I introduced Page Rules and showed how you could use it to control CloudFlare's features like Apps, Performance, and Security settings on a page-by-page basis. Here I'm going to...
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Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off...
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Social Media and Community Management Meetup
We're excited to announce that we are hosting a Social Media and Community Management meetup at the CloudFlare HQ in San Francisco on Thursday, March 1.Industry leaders who manage the communities of...
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Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
Last night was not our finest hour. Around 07:30 GMT, we were finishing up a push of a new DNS infrastructure. The core of what this new update was built to do is make DNS updates even faster. Before...
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How to Enable SSL on Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous & More...
The number of services today that allow you to quickly get online is stunning. Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous, Ning, TypePad, Smugmug, and more allow anyone to publish content online....
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CloudFlare Now Supporting More Ports
CloudFlare protects and accelerates web traffic. As a result, we initially only proxied traffic for the two main web ports: 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). One of the top customer service questions we...
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Come Meet Team CloudFlare at SXSW
CloudFlare has been a big supporter of SXSW. This summer, when the Interactive, Film, and Music festival opened its Panel Picker for submissions, CloudFlare helped keep it online under the flood of...
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CloudFlare Tips: Recommended Steps for New Users
Editor's Note: Since the post has the word "steps" in it, I thought I would include a picture of some steps from a visit to Mother Temple of Besakih in Bali, Indonesia. I had the good fortune of...
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Launching at SXSW? Use CloudFlare to Stay Online!
A bunch of us from CloudFlare are packing up to head to Austin over the next 24 hours for SXSW, the interactive, music, and film festival. We've been supporters of SXSW for a while and helped the...
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The CloudFlare Story
We are frequently asked by customers, media, friends and peers the story of how CloudFlare started. Next week, CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway will tell this...
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App: Zoompf Performance Report Helps You Find And Fix Performance Issues
Zoompf is a cloud-based tool for on-demand web performance testing and optimization. We're pleased to be able to offer their robust Zoompf Performance Report as a CloudFlare App for a one-time fee of...
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