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February 08, 2021 5:40 PM

###### Who won Super Bowl LV? A look at Internet traffic during the game

The obvious answer is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but the less obvious answer comes from asking “which Super Bowl advertiser got the biggest Internet bump?”. This blog aims to answer that question....

January 15, 2021 5:54 PM

###### Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down

Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Inte...

January 12, 2021 4:55 PM

###### Cloudflare Radar's 2020 Year In Review

Today we are launching a dedicated Year In Review page with interactive maps and charts where you can explore what changed on the Internet in 2020. Year In Review is part of Cloudflare Radar. ...

January 06, 2021 5:05 PM

###### Internet traffic disruption caused by the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville

On Christmas Day 2020, an apparent suicide bomb exploded in Nashville, TN. The explosion happened outside an AT&T network building on Second Avenue in Nashville at 1230 UTC....

December 11, 2018 10:50 AM

###### The truth about Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Something we all see and hear a lot about at this time of year are Black Friday (23 November this year) and Cyber Monday (26 November) - but just how important are these days on the Internet?...

August 19, 2018 5:00 PM

###### African traffic growth and predictions for the future

Looking back at our historical data, we realized how much the Internet and Cloudflare grew. With more than 150 data centers, 10 percent of web-based applications, customers everywhere around the world, from the tiny islands in the Pacific to the big metropolises....

September 30, 2016 7:56 PM

###### Rate Limiting: Live Demo

Cloudflare helps customers control their own traffic at the edge. One of two products that we introduced to empower customers to do so is Cloudflare Rate Limiting....

September 29, 2016 4:47 PM

###### Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details

Cloudflare's investment into building a large global network protects our customers from DDoS attacks, secures them with our Web Application Firewall and Universal SSL, as well as improving performance through our CDN and the many network-level optimizations we're constantly iter...

September 29, 2016 2:04 PM

###### Control your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare

Today, we're introducing two new Cloudflare Traffic products to give customers control over how Cloudflare’s edge network handles their traffic, allowing them to shape and direct it for their specific needs....

June 21, 2016 6:03 AM

###### A Post Mortem on this Morning's Incident

We would like to share more details with our customers and readers on the internet outages that occurred this morning and earlier in the week, and what we are doing to prevent these from happening again....

July 08, 2014 10:00 AM

###### ReplayLastGoal and CloudFlare: Fanning World Cup Flames

The World Cup is, at once, exhilarating and agonizing, and not just for those lucky souls in Rio or Manaus, folks working from home, or anyone else sitting happily in front of a TV....

November 02, 2012 8:19 PM

###### CloudFlare's Global Reach

CloudFlare is based in San Francisco, California, USA but we serve a global audience. Every minute of every day we send and receive traffic from nearly all of the world's networks....

September 17, 2012 8:17 PM

###### How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker. ...

April 18, 2012 10:43 PM

###### 30% More Traffic in Less Than a Blink of an Eye

CloudFlare's traffic grows in a number of different ways. The most obvious is that we sign up more websites. We also grow as the natural traffic to sites using CloudFlare increases as they get more popular themselves. ...

December 15, 2011 12:28 AM

###### Do Hackers Take the Holidays Off?

I was talking last week with Shawn Graham, a reporter at Fast Company, and he asked a simple but interesting question: do hackers take the holidays off?...