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 24th. As part of the Internet Summit, we’re bringing together policymakers, business executives, cybersecurity experts, and academics from all over the world to discuss the […]

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 always trying to streamline our partners’ user experience, and we thought it would be a fitting time to walk through […]

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 traffic by country to our network, behind only the United States. In retrospect, that shouldn’t have been a surprise. In 2010, the […]

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 improvements and website security for our Magento hosting customers. Customer experience is core to our business and relying on another company is a major […]

Three years ago we launched Railgun, CloudFlare’s origin network optimizer. Railgun allows us to cache the uncacheable to accelerate the connection between CloudFlare and our customers’ origin servers. That brings the benefit of a CDN to even dynamic content with no need for ‘fast purging’ or other tricks. With Railgun even dynamic, ever-changing pages benefit […]

It’s that time of year again, when the end of summer is in sight, students are back in school, football is on TV again, and your social feeds are flooded with “vote for my panel at SXSW” updates. While it feels like our team was just at SXSW, it’s already time to start planning for […]

This is the text of an internal email I sent at CloudFlare that we thought worth sharing more widely. I annotated it a bit with links that weren’t in the original. “Tim Berners-Lee- Mosaic by Sue Edkins at Sheen Lane Centre” by Robert Smith – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons Date: […]

The CloudFlare team is heading to HostingCon 2015 in San Diego next week. We are excited to meet colleagues from the industry, reconnect with partners, and make new friends. This year’s conference marks a milestone of sorts. It’s our fifth time at HostingCon and we’ve come full circle – our first HostingCon took place in […]

Today we are thrilled to welcome UK2 Group as a CloudFlare partner. Customers of UK2 Group (including its brands UK2.net, Midphase, and Westhost) are now able to access CloudFlare’s web performance and security solutions with a single click. Backed by CloudFlare, UK2 Group’s customers can now protect their websites against security threats, ensure only clean […]