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W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We've Automatically Patched
The team at the research firm Sucuri announced a serious vulnerability to W3TC and WP Super Cache this afternoon. (Update: it appears the vulnerability was first reported on WordPress.org about a month...
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Cribs: CloudFlare London Edition
It's official, CloudFlare has arrived in London.CloudFlare's first international office opened this month near St. Paul's Cathedral in London. We decided to open an office outside Silicon Valley for...
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How Syria Turned Off the Internet (Again)
Today at 18:48 UTC, Syria dropped off the Internet. Based on the data we collect from our network, as well as reports from other organizations monitoring network routes, it appears that someone...
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Syrian Internet Restored
Yesterday, Syria's Internet connectivity was cut off from the rest of the world. At 14:12 UTC, approximately 19 hours and 30 minutes after it had been shut down, connectivity was returned. Here's a...
View ArticleToday's Network Issue
Today at 16:13 UTC a large amount of traffic began hitting our Los Angeles data center. We have an in-house team that monitors our network 24x7x365 and immediately all their alarms went off. We...
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Happy IPv6 Day: Usage On the Rise, Attacks Too
June 6th is known as World IPv6 Day so we thought it was a good time to look at the trends in IPv6 usage across CloudFlare's network. Two big themes we've seen: 1) IPv6 usage is growing steadily, but...
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CloudFlare, PRISM, and Securing SSL Ciphers
Over the last week we've closely watched the disclosures about the alleged NSA PRISM program. At CloudFlare, we have never been approached to participate in PRISM or any other similar program. We do,...
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CloudFlare will be at HostingCon 2013 in Full Force
The CloudFlare team will be at HostingCon 2013 in Austin next week. This is our third year at the show and we have a lot of things in store for partners.Here's a sneak peek:Complimentary limousine...
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Mirage 2.0: Solving the Mobile Browsing Speed Challenge
Almost exactly a year ago, CloudFlare announced a feature called Mirage. Mirage was designed to make the loading of images faster in two primary ways: 1) deliver smaller images for devices with smaller...
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Integrating Kyoto Tycoon With PostgreSQL
CloudFlare has Points of Presence (PoPs) in 23 datacenters around the world and plans to expand to many more soon. It also has a single portal, CloudFlare.com, where website owners interact with the...
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Prague, Czech Republic: CloudFlare's 20th Data Center
We just turned up our newest data center (#20) in Prague, Czech Republic. This comes hot on the heels of new data centers in Vienna, Toronto, Seattle, Atlanta, and Sydney. Vienna, which came online...
View ArticleVid Luther from ZippyKid “We can’t stop growing and we don’t want to”
Vidis the founder and CEO of ZippyKid, the leader in WordPress hosting. Vid has taken the work he did at Third Party Code (the company he founded before ZippyKid), and productized it into ZippyKid....
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CloudFlare meetup in Hong Kong
CloudFlare's Network Engineer, Tom Paseka, will be in Hong Kong at the end of August. During his time there, we wanted to host a meetup for CloudFlare users and anyone interested in web performance and...
View ArticleRyan Kiskis from Basekit talks business, customers and growth trends
Ryan is the Vice President of Product and Business Development at Basekit. Having been in the tech industry for almost a decade, Ryan is an experienced professional at both startups and Fortune 500...
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Saturday Night Fever: Layer 7 attacks against CloudFlare sites
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...
View Article“We provide a time machine for websites” - David Moeller from CodeGuard
CodeGuard is led by CEO and co-founder David Moeller, a seasoned manager and entrepreneur with two successful exits in the last five years. Launched publicly at TechCrunch Disrupt – NYC in May 2011,...
View ArticleSpectators of the Cloud - Kenny Li from Cloud Spectator
Kenny Li is co-founder and VP of Operations at Cloud Spectator. As a recognized leader in applied cloud intelligence, Cloud Spectator works together with enterprises and service providers in the cloud...
View ArticleThe forecast is cloudy says Ben Cherian
Ben is a serial entrepreneur who loves playing in the intersection of business and technology. Ben is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Midokura, which brings disruptive cloud networking...
View ArticleUpdating Policies
Back in late 2009, CloudFlare's service began to take shape and our website first went online. While in the early days I had contributed to CloudFlare's early code, we quickly hired engineers to join...
View ArticleElya McCleave from SoftCom talks customer experience and support
Elya has over 10 years of extensive experience in the web hosting industry. As the VP of Customer Care she is responsible for all aspects of SoftCom's Customer Support including management of all the...
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