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What is Cloudflare? – History of Cloudflare

Cloudflare that is a web performance and web security company is on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company brings businesses, non-profits, bloggers, and anyone together with an Internet presence boast faster, more secure websites and apps. More than 27 million Internet properties are on Cloudflare.

The company offers functionality like SSL and content distribution to every website on users’ network. Cloudflare uses CDN-like technology to handle all requests to a website. Therefore, the web performance ans securtiy company provides many capabilities including stop attacks directed at a website, dynamically modify content in order to improve performance, insert applications into web pages, provide rich analytics on all the requests to your website and more. It has benefits such as massive network scale, integrated security and performance, predictable pricing, ease of use, 24/7/365 enterprise support, developer friendly.

In 2009 summer, Michelle Zatlyn, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, the three co-founders worked on the Cloudflare prototype. In November of 2009, Cloudflare closed its Series A financing with Ray Rothrock, from Venrock, and Carl Ledbetter, from Pelion Venture Partners. In June 2010, Cloudflare launched a private beta to select members of the Project Honey Pot community. After the launch of Cloudflare official on September 27 2010, Cloudflare has launched dozens of products and hundreds of features over the course of 6 years, opened 6 offices across 3 countries, and brought 200 data centers online. Now, Cloudflare serves data from 200 cities in over 95 countries around the world. The company has offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, USA.

On 13 September 2019, Cloudflare made its debut on the public market and became a publicly traded company. The company offers solutions under the performance, security, industries, partnerships, integrations categories’.

Network-layer DDoS attack doubled in last 3 months

by Seda Nur Cinar

23 November 2020

Omer Yoachimik and Vivek Ganti from Cloudflare published a blog post about Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020, considering ...

Cloudflare announces France office

by Erdem Yasar

11 November 2020

Security, performance, and reliability company, Cloudflare announced that Paris will be the home of the company's fourth office in Europe. ...

Cloudflare launchs Cloudflare One to keep workforces secure

Cloudflare launches Cloudflare One to keep workforces secure

by Seda Nur Cinar

13 October 2020

Employees that work from home have trouble with the speed and experience of VPNs. Therefore, organizations look for an alternative ...

Cloudflare introduces Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress

by Erdem Yasar

3 October 2020

Cloudflare unveiled a new service, Automatic Platform Optimization, supports WordPress, the most popular website hosting solution serving 38% of all ...

CenturyLink outage caused 3.5% drop in web traffic

by Erdem Yasar

1 September 2020

Internet service provider CenturyLink experienced an outage due to a misconfiguration in one of its data centers. The technical issue ...

Cloudflare partners with Cloudflare for Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Cloudflare partners with PacketFabric for Cloudflare Network Interconnect

by Erdem Yasar

7 August 2020

PacketFabric and Cloudflare announced the release of the Cloudflare Network Interconnect. Cloudflare Network Interconnect brings full network functionality to the ...

Cloudflare releases serverless computing platform

by Erdem Yasar

28 July 2020

Cloudflare now offers a serverless platform for developers with flexibility, performance, security, ease of use, and pricing. It allows developers ...

Cloudflare announces Tokyo office and Head of Japan

by Erdem Yasar

22 July 2020

Cloudflare announced that the new Tokyo office will be the home of its newest Asia-Pacific (APAC) office and Masa Aoba ...

Cloudflare announces partnership with JD Cloud & AI

by Erdem Yasar

29 April 2020

Cloudflare announced that to help build a better Internet, for everyone, everywhere, the company announced a significant strategic partnership with ...

Cloudflare launches Border Gateway Protocol tool

by Erdem Yasar

21 April 2020

Cloudflare has announced that the company has released a Border Gateway Protocol safety check tool, isBGPSafeYet.com. The service's source code is ...

Firefox rolls out encrypted DNS over HTTPS

by Erdem Yasar

25 February 2020

Firefox announced that it has begun the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. Firefox ...

Cloudflare finished 2019 strong with IPO and growth strategy

by Seda Nur Cinar

24 February 2020

Cloudflare’s revenue has increased by 51% to $83.9 million in Q4, with the effect of IPO in September, according to ...

101domain partnered with Cloudflare

by Seda Nur Cinar

19 February 2020

101domain, an international domain registration company, partnered with Cloudflare to strengthen web infrastructure and security services. 101domain announced its partnership ...