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Simple Helix chooses CloudFlare to ignite white-hot Magento performance
Today’s guest blogger is George Cagle. George is a system administrator at Simple Helix, a CloudFlare partner. Some months ago, we made a big bet on partnering with CloudFlare for performance...
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Test all the things: IPv6, HTTP/2, SHA-2
CloudFlare constantly tries to stay on the leading edge of Internet technologies so that our customers' web sites use the latest, fastest, most secure protocols. For example, in the past we've enabled...
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Kernel bypass
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's...
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Weird bug of the day: Twitter in-app browser can't visit site
We keep a close eye on tweets that mention CloudFlare because sometimes we get early warning about odd errors that we are not seeing ourselves through our monitoring systems. Towards the end of August...
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Berlin, Germany: CloudFlare's 44th data center
Our data center in Berlin is our 3rd in Germany following Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, 14th in Europe, and 44th globally. Berlin is of considerable importance not just because it is the capital of...
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: CloudFlare's 45th data center
Kuala Lumpur joins the CloudFlare network as our 45th global point of presence (PoP). While this latest deployment comes only a day after the announcement of our expansion in Berlin (back-to-back!),...
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How We Extended CloudFlare's Performance and Security Into Mainland China
CloudFlare launched five years ago. Within a year of our launch, the biggest surprise was the strong global demand for our service. From nearly the beginning, China was the second largest source of...
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CloudFlare + WHMCS: Faster Websites For Your Customers
We’re at the cPanel Conference in Denver this week, so feel free to drop by our booth and say hello. It’s a great opportunity to connect with our partners and better understand their needs. We’re...
View ArticleAnnouncing CloudFlare’s Internet Summit - And How to Get an Invitation
Five years ago next week, CloudFlare launched its service to the public. We’re celebrating our birthday in a variety of ways, including holding our first-ever Internet Summit on Thursday, September...
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Why we raised $110m from Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Qualcomm
The past few years have been marked by tremendous growth for CloudFlare. At the time of our last fundraising in December 2012, CloudFlare was a team of 37 operating a network in 23 cities and 15...
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iOS 9 — How did the launch really go?
On September 16 2015 at 10:00AM PST, Apple released their latest update to the iPhone: iOS 9. For several days after the announcement, ISPs and customers reported problems downloading iOS 9 due to...
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Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study
CloudFlare servers are constantly being targeted by DDoS'es. We see everything from attempted DNS reflection attacks to L7 HTTP floods involving large botnets. Recently an unusual flood caught our...
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Happy 5th Birthday, CloudFlare!
CloudFlare customers recorded videos to celebrate our first five years Today is September 27, 2015. It's a rare Super Blood Moon. And it's also CloudFlare's birthday. CloudFlare launched 5 years ago...
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Manchester, UK: CloudFlare's 63rd data center
Our new point of presence in Manchester, UK brings the CloudFlare network to 63 points of presence across 33 countries. In other words, the sun never sets across the CloudFlare network. Our data...
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Doubling the speed of jpegtran with SIMD
It is no secret that at CloudFlare we put a great effort into accelerating our customers' websites. One way to do it is to reduce the size of the images on the website. This is what our Polish product...
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Single RX queue kernel bypass in Netmap for high packet rate networking
In a previous post we discussed the performance limitations of the Linux kernel network stack. We detailed the available kernel bypass techniques allowing user space programs to receive packets with...
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A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack
Recently, a new brute force attack method for WordPress instances was identified by Sucuri. This latest technique allows attackers to try a large number of WordPress username and password login...
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DNSSEC is Open for Beta
Since January, CloudFlare has been running a small, private beta for DNSSEC. Starting today, the DNSSEC beta is open for everyone. To request access, email dnssec-beta@cloudflare.com. A Background on...
View ArticleResults of experimenting with Brotli for dynamic web content
Compression is one of the most important tools CloudFlare has to accelerate website performance. Compressed content takes less time to transfer, and consequently reduces load times. On expensive mobile...
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Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare
I’m sure some of you are scratching your head right about now wondering why I would join an Internet security and optimization company. But, Ben, this is not even close to your passion: operating...
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