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The CloudFlare Drupal Extension
A Drupal developer, Brian Stevenson, recently created a CloudFlare Drupal extension that will help Drupal site owners get the original visitor IP at the Drupal level. Some common FAQs about the...
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Startups Meet-up for Lunch at CloudFlare
On April 7, A Scrappy Startup Forum held their monthly lunch at the CloudFlare loft. More than 60 people showed up for the event. Startups like Reddit, Dishcrawl, Tapviva, Redbeacon and SpotSift...
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Using the CloudFlare API to report spam on your site back to CloudFlare
CloudFlare loves threat data. CloudFlare's sytem continually gets smarter through a variety of ways, including through user-reported data. So for example, users can add IP and IP ranges to their Block...
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Using the CloudFlare API to pull visitor IPs
Many of our customers love CloudFlare's statistics report because the information available differs from other services providing analytics. One frequent request is that customers would like to be able...
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Ian Pye Presents SortaSQL @ the CloudFlare Loft
Last night CloudFlare hosted a Hybrid DB meetup where Ian Pye, our lead Analytics Engineer, presented on the data infrastructure at CloudFlare. He discussed how CloudFlare looked at several NoSQL and...
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CloudFlare's LA Datacenter Now Online!
Swimming pools, movie stars, and now CloudFlare!We just turned on our latest data center (#6) in Los Angeles. In its first minute, the facility processed more than 30,000 requests. We expect that...
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CloudFlare Wins at Under The Radar
On Thursday, April 29, CloudFlare won the Judge's award at Under The Radar, an event showcasing new technology in the Silicon Valley. CloudFlare's co-founder and CEO, Matthew Prince, shared...
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What's On CloudFlare's Mind
CloudFlare sits in front of tens of thousands of websites. In the last month, nearly 5% of the Internet's visitors passed through our network at least once. As a result, we get some sense of what's on...
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News From CloudFlare Labs: Javascript Preloader Research
Some of the techniques that CloudFlare uses to make sites faster and safer have generally been around and used by the Internet Giants for some time. In other places, CloudFlare is breaking new ground...
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CloudFlare New Jersey Now Online
CloudFlare's newest data center just started receiving traffic. Located just over the river from Manhattan in New Jersey, the latest facility is already taking load away from our facility in Ashburn,...
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W3 Total Cache (W3TC): Total CloudFlare Integration
CloudFlare is excited to announce that the WordPress performance plugin W3 Total Cache (W3TC) now fully integrates CloudFlare's performance and security. CloudFlare and W3TC's missions are aligned:...
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Google Analytics: Now with Site Speed
Last week Google Analytics announced that they would begin integrating Site Speed tracking. This is an awesome new way for site administrators to see how well their pages are performing. CloudFlare has...
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Hong Kong Data Center, Now Online!
In CloudFlare's relentless effort to make the web faster and safer worldwide, we're excited to announce our newest data center came online last night: Hong Kong. Approximately 10% of the traffic to...
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People Just Liked It Better That Way!
We finished our update to our Amsterdam data center over night. Previously, we had used leased equipment in Amsterdam to power CloudFlare's service. While it worked ok, it wasn't specifically optimized...
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Zone Apex / Naked Domain / Root Domain CNAME Support for Amazon EC2, Google...
One of the challenges of using a service like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud (EC2) is you need to point your DNS to a CNAME. The problem is the DNS RFC (RFC1033) requires the "zone apex"...
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2,000 Page Views Per Second
This morning we crossed a milestone: delivering a sustained average of 2,000 page views per second. Peak traffic is even higher. Once upon a time we could watch the logs fly by in our terminal windows...
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That's Freaking Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop New Attacks
We always talk about how CloudFlare gets smarter, and we do that in a variety of ways. One of the ways is that we look at changes in traffic to a site. If there is a big change, then our system...
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Ohh La La! CloudFlare Paris Data Center Goes Live!
It was croissants, brie, and crêpes around the CloudFlare office today as our Paris data center went live. Paris joins Amsterdam as CloudFlare's second European data center. Amsterdam has traditionally...
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Alert the Ewings! CloudFlare's Dallas Data Center Now Live!
Some people from Texas (hint: Terry, our network engineer, hails from Texas) were confused when we said we brought up our data center in Paris. They thought we meant Paris, Texas, not Paris, France. We...
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Introducing CloudFlare Apps: Fast, Safe, and One-Click Simple
CloudFlare launched at TechCrunch Disrupt eight months ago in San Francisco. It was an exciting time for our entire team and early supporters. So, when we got the invitation to talk about our progress...
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