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Re:Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:11PM (#4010790)
We do not cache the entire site with Always Online. The Always Online feature will display a limited cache of the site's content.
Re:How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz' on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:54PM (#3644667)
Also:

Clarifying that forcing direct does not mean a null route. Forcing direct = going direct to the site's server (we still resolve the DNS).

Re:How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz' on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:49PM (#3644641)
Hi,

We only force a site direct if the attack is too large & starts to impact other customers as well. If the attack doesn't impact other customers, then we won't force the site direct (we generally only force a few sites direct per week & these are monster attacks).

Re:Page Speed Service on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:37PM (#2824121)
CloudFlare does have a feature to minimize some resources called Auto Minify. http://blog.cloudflare.com/an-all-new-and-improved-autominif...
Re:Page Speed Service on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:57PM (#2818901)
We actually have the backend all built for this. It is just a matter of doing just a little bit more testing before releasing it into the wild. We've used a handful of beta testers to help us identify potential problems.
Re:Page Speed Service on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:56PM (#2818895)
We actually talk about the announcement today on our blog here: http://bit.ly/nLkE9Y

We also do far more than just act as a CDN.

Re:Page Speed Service on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:44PM (#2818843)
We will have CNAME pointing available in the very near future.
Re:CloudFlare users: Beware on Thursday July 21, 2011 @07:26PM (#2791729)
This issue is being fixed & should be done by tomorrow or so.

It isn't affecting ALL domains. It appears to be an issue with CNAMEs/APEX only.

Re:CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60%... on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @08:39PM (#2631569)
Similar to many other companies operating on the internet these days, CloudFlare operates on a freemium model (free vs paid products). We also have some other opportunities to make money with other product integrations & will be launching enterprise products in the future.

We're not going anywhere:)

Re:CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60%... on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @06:49PM (#2631255)
"They use VigLink to add affiliate tags to the external links of the sites that use them."

This is actually an optional service (Outbound Links) that can be turned on or off (opt-in by default). No affiliate links are added without turning the feature on.

Re:CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60%... on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @06:48PM (#2631251)
No, it isn't hosting because you still keep your hosting provider when using CloudFlare. The DNS switch is at your registrar, which is an entirely separate issue than hosting.

Example: 1. Registrar could be GoDaddy. 2. Hosting is at BlueHost.

Adding CloudFlare would mean: 1. Change authoritative nameservers at GoDaddy to us. 2. Hosting doesn't change at BlueHost.

Re:Torbit – Making Websites Faster on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @09:27PM (#1912654)
Hi bmelton,

Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websites about 30% faster on average.