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WSJ: CloudFlare Named Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company, Second...
We just got word from the Wall Street Journal that CloudFlare was named the Most Innovative Internet & Networking Company of 2012. This is the second year in a row that CloudFlare has won this...
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The Pumpkin Lady Carves Again
With Halloween around the corner, I caught up with one of our customers, the husband and wife team behind Pumpkinlady.com. If you haven't been to their website, it offers a range of pumpkin carving...
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Sandy, Meet CloudFlare
There is a large hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean which is likely to come on-shore in the Eastern United States late tomorrow. Dubbed Sandy, the current track of the hurricane has it making landfall...
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OCSP Stapling: How CloudFlare Just Made SSL 30% Faster
This week CloudFlare is announcing several things we're doing to significantly improve the performance of SSL. Too few sites are secured with SSL. One of the reasons sites don't implement SSL is that...
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Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack
A few weeks ago I wrote about DNS Amplification Attacks. These attacks are some of the largest, as measured by the number of Gigabits per second (Gbps), that we see directed toward our network. For the...
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What Happens When a Hurricane Hits the Web
(Photo credit: Hy Chalmé/Instagram)Now that Hurricane Sandy has passed and the flood waters have begun to recede, we wanted to recap what we saw over the last 24 hours across the CloudFlare...
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CloudFlare Works with GlobalSign to Make SSL Faster Across the Web
Earlier this week we announced how CloudFlare enabled OCSP stapling in order to improve our customers' SSL performance. OCSP stapling is awesome and improves SSL performance by as much as 30%. However,...
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CloudFlare's Global Reach
CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks. Beyond traffic to...
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Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. I'm a network...
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CloudFlare London Meetup
We're having a CloudFlare London Meetup tomorrow night (Thursday, November 8). Three CloudFlare employees will be there: Dane, John and Ian. Come have a beer and exchange ideas with the CloudFlare crew...
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How to choose a payment platform: a CloudFlare + Braintree meetup
We are looking forward to co-hosting a meetup next week on Wednesday, November 14, with Braintree, the fastest growing payments platform for online and mobile commerce.This meetup will:Answer all of...
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The many sites of CloudFlare
Each day I get to trade notes with CloudFlare customers. I'm constantly amazed by the diversity of businesses that use the service from around the world. I wanted to share some stories from some of our...
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Do you want to work with Go?
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the...
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SEO and your website
*We get a lot of questions from our customers about CloudFlare and how we impact SEO. So when SEO.com signed up for CloudFlare, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to an expert to get the...
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Ceasefires Don't End Cyberwars
There is a significant conflict in the Middle East. As has been widely reported, along with the physical confrontation between the Israelis and Palestinians, there have been widespread cyber attacks....
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Two-factor Authentication Now Available
With web performance and security being the core of CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve not just our customers' website security, but their account security as well. Therefore, we are...
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Choosing a Two-Factor Authentication System
We've been thinking about how to best implement two-factor authentication to better protect our customers' accounts for quite some time now. When, about 6 months ago, my account was targeted by hackers...
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How Syria Turned Off the Internet
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the...
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Syrian Internet access reestablished starting 1432 UTC
1432 UTC Syria has reestablished partial connectivity to the Internet. The following map of BGP connectivity shows Syria's 29386 network connected to multiple networks outside Syria.This BGP map shows...
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CloudFlare and Parallels to Bring Website Performance and Security to...
In early October we quietly announced our partnership with Parallels, a global leader in hosting, cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization. Parallels makes it easier for service providers,...
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