New IPs + New Year = Big Stuff to Come!
Two quick things:First, we were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is:173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)That means the public facing IPs...
View ArticleNew Feature: Customize Your CloudFlare Challenge Page
CloudFlare protects your website from malicious attacks by stopping the request before it reaches your server. Often these requests are from automated bots crawling your website looking for a...
View ArticleCloudFlare Threat Control: Making your website safer
One of the benefits of CloudFlare is that it provides broad, effective security for any website. CloudFlare is a first line of defense against all sorts of threats from comment spammers to automated...
View ArticleAPI: How To Build CloudFlare Into Your Web Apps
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications.CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control APICloudFlare Settings APIIf you're a...
View ArticleCloudFlare Guest Blog Post: TweetFind
Tell us about yourself.My name is Ruben Orozco, and I'm the Founder of Tweetfind.com. When I'm not working on @TweetFind.com, a Twitter directory to bring Consumers and Businesses together, I work as a...
View ArticleWhat Egypt Shutting Down the Internet Looks Like
CloudFlare gets quite a bit of traffic from Egypt -- the country is consistently in the top-20 originators of visitors to our network. That is, until last night when Egypt shutdowntheInternet. Here is...
View ArticleCloudFlare Keeps Groundhog Day Online!
Today is Groundhog Day: the day on which a groundhog (named Phil) crawls out of his hole in Punxsutawney, PA and either sees his shadow, meaning we're in for six more weeks of winter, or does not, in...
View ArticleCloudFlare Guest Blog Post: Gabe Arnold of ZigZap
Tell me about yourselfI run a small technology firm and write on my blog GabeArnold.com I focus on techniques and technology that help small business owners grow and succeed in a rapid and measurable...
View ArticleCloudFlare Tips: Frequently used CloudFlare settings
Many of our recent blog posts have had to do with helping customers navigate the CloudFlare service effectively. Staying with that theme, we wanted to review some of the most frequently used CloudFlare...
View ArticleCloudFlare Tips: Using CloudFlare for your forums
Last week, our CEO Matthew was on a panel at ForumCon in San Francisco. ForumCon attracted forum owners from all over the world and we got to meet a lot of interesting people. Some of the key things we...
View ArticleCloudFlare Adds Multiple Language Support
CloudFlare, with the help of many of our community members, has recently added support for multiple languages on the CloudFlare challenge page. In addition to English, we've added the following...
View ArticleMeet the (Sometimes Goofy) CloudFlare Team
CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition....
View ArticleCloudFlare Loft Party
Last week the CloudFlare team opened our new San Francisco office to our users and friends for an open house / loft party. We had The Peelers, a terrific local mashup band, entertain the crowd while...
View ArticleIntroducing the CloudFlare Joomla Extension
The CloudFlare team takes a great deal of pride in listening to the feedback of our users. We're pleased to announce that we recently released a beta version of our CloudFlare Joomla extension that...
View ArticleA2 Hosting Guest Blog Post: CloudFlare and... Pizza???
Photo credit: Lisa Mani*Editor's Note: The following guest post is by Brad Litwin at A2 Hosting, one of the CloudFlare Hosting partners. They asked to talk about howCloudFlare is helping their...
View ArticleCloudFlare Opens Its Office in San Francisco, and Brings on New Talent
In February, CloudFlare packed up our first office in Palo Alto and headed up the 101 to San Francisco. Moving our headquarters to SF not only expanded our workspace, but also put us next to many...
View ArticleCloudFlare and Metallica 'Ride the Lightning'
While I may be dating myself in this post, I've been a fan of Metallica since 1986. Like many other teenagers listening to music during my youth, I was largely listening to a lot of cheesy "hair bands"...
View ArticleApril's Fools Day
It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco and the office was full of April Fool's jokes. The creativity was spearheaded by Matthieu, who recruited Matthew and Jason to help him execute several ideas....
View ArticleMeet-up With CloudFlare
CloudFlare has such a vibrant community, so we thought, why not bring them all together? Over the next several weeks, we are bringing together fantastic groups for a series of meetups. We will host...
View ArticleSmarter Web Security, With Your Help
">Good security depends on having a lot of information and being able to react to it quickly. One of the problems with traditional web security has been that it relies on installing an appliance or...
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