Experiencing the ‘Error Establishing a Database Connection‘ on your WordPress website? This common error indicates that your site is unable to connect to its database, rendering it inaccessible to users — and potentially impacting your visitors, user experience, and sales. In this blog post, we’ll explain what the database connection error means, common reasons for […]
Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it
One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that, whether as a consumer or producer, the cost has continued to come down. Back in the day, it used to be that you needed a server room, a whole host of hardware, and an army of folks to help keep everything up and running. The […]
Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar
We launched the Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC) during Birthday Week 2022 as a way of keeping the community up to date on Internet disruptions, including outages and shutdowns, visible in Cloudflare’s traffic data. While some of the entries have their genesis in information from social media posts made by local telecommunications providers or civil […]
Welcome to connectivity cloud: the modern way to connect and protect your clouds, networks, applications and users
The best part of our job is the time we spend talking to Cloudflare customers. We always learn something new and interesting about their IT and security challenges. In recent years, something about those conversations has changed. More and more, the biggest challenge customers tell us about isn’t something that’s easy to define. And it’s […]
Traffic Transparency: Unleashing the Power of Cloudflare Trace
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Trace! Cloudflare Trace is available to all our customers. Cloudflare Trace enables you to understand how HTTP requests traverse your zone's configuration and what Cloudflare Rules are being applied to the request. For many Cloudflare customers, the journey their customers' traffic embarks on through the Cloudflare ecosystem was […]
How Cloudflare’s systems dynamically route traffic across the globe
Picture this: you’re at an airport, and you’re going through an airport security checkpoint. There are a bunch of agents who are scanning your boarding pass and your passport and sending you through to your gate. All of a sudden, some of the agents go on break. Maybe there’s a leak in the ceiling above […]
Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed
We are thrilled to introduce Cloudflare Fonts! In the coming weeks sites that use Google Fonts will be able to effortlessly load their fonts from the site’s own domain rather than from Google. All at a click of a button. This enhances both privacy and performance. It enhances users' privacy by eliminating the need to […]
Switching to Cloudflare can cut your network carbon emissions up to 96% (and SBTi)
Since our founding, Cloudflare has helped customers save on costs, increase security, and boost performance and reliability by migrating legacy hardware functions to the cloud. More recently, our customers have been asking about whether this transition can also improve the environmental impact of their operations. We are excited to share an independent report published this […]
Cloudflare Account Permissions, how to use them, and best practices
In the dynamic landscape of modern web applications and organizations, access control is critical. Defining who can do what within your Cloudflare account ensures security and efficient workflow management. In order to help meet your organizational needs, whether you are a single developer, a small team, or a larger enterprise, we’re going to cover two […]
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
A typo is one of those common mistakes with unpredictable results when it comes to the Internet’s domain names (DNS). In this blog post we’re going to analyze traffic for exmaple.com, and see how a very simple human error ends up creating unintentional traffic on the Internet. Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years […]
