eastdakota

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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   CloudFlare doesn't block legit crawlers either. It does cache responses to crawlers so if a page hasn't changed and Google crawls it again the request doesn't burden the origin. What's interesting about CDN in a Box is they're serving off a
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   Agreed. It's a remnant from when we first launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 7 months ago. We'll get the error revised, and I'll get the restriction lifted ASAP.
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   That's a good description: Varnish + CDN (+ security). CloudFlare ends up making sites twice as fast and saving sites about 65% of their bandwidth. We run our own CDN with nodes scattered around the world.
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   We have a limit in place for big sites (top 2,000 according to Quantcast, if I recall correctly). Email us the site and we'll get the block lifted. Not an upsell, just something we do to make sure we're watching carefully when big guys come
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   Yes. At a technical level, CloudFlare is a caching reverse proxy provisioned via DNS.
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   Works via DNS. Takes about 5 minutes to sign up. Tens of thousands of sites using the service. Currently powering than 2,000 page views per second for more than 100 million unique visitors per month.
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   by eastdakota 15y ago

   Data centers worldwide: Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, New York, DC, and Amsterdam. Coming soon: Singapore, Dallas, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, and London.
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   Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop DDoS Attacks(blog.cloudflare.com)

   86 points by eastdakota 15y ago|46 comments
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   CloudFlare, the Free CDN, Now Powering 2,000 Page Views Per Second(blog.cloudflare.com)

   6 points by eastdakota 15y ago|1 comments
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    by eastdakota 16y ago

    Glad you like the non-boring names for nameservers. There's actually method to why we use them and not boring names. There are 101 of names (50 women, 51 men) all between 2 - 4 letters long (Ed, Sara, John, etc.). They actually map to globa
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    Keeping Punxsutawney Phil's Website Online Through Groundhog Day Traffic Flood(blog.cloudflare.com)

    5 points by eastdakota 16y ago|2 comments
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    Always Online: Because Downtime Like Tumblr's Sucks(blog.cloudflare.com)

    4 points by eastdakota 16y ago|0 comments