CloudFlare

CloudFlare is a locally -positioned content delivery network with anhängigem DNS. It operated distributed in 23 data centers in 14 countries server.

Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway and the current CEO Matthew Prince developed CloudFlare 2009, the official launch was announced in September 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. In 2010, approximately 150 million interactions of individual users at 5 billion page views per month were counted. The service secured in early 2012 about 250,000 sites, for example, against demand peaks from. In March 2013 were more than three times, around 780,000 pages, known as current status.

In October 2011, the company was named by the Wall Street Journal 's "Most Innovative Network & Internet Company ".

The World Economic Forum said the company's own algorithms because of their adaptability in the " Technology Pioneers 2012" report.

The 2011 active hacker group LulzSec used the platform for the operation of its website after the previous provider could not provide sufficient capacity. After some publicity actions, the hack the website Sony and the theft of one million access or DDoS the CIA homepage, led mainstream media and blogs a broad and controversial debate whether CloudFlare should take the appearance LulzSecs only at the request of the CIA offline without a court order. Cloudflare invoked in a blog post on Freedom of Information and rejected by referring to Censorship.

In June 2012, succeeded the hacker group UGNazi via gaps in Google's user authentication to deface the website 4chan, which was supposed to be protected by the service.

In February 2013, the Zero Science Lab published a comparative report, how vulnerable would CloudFlare via penetration testing. Compared to these two competitors, CloudFlare proved to be the least resistant.

CloudFlare graduated in 2013 from the Mozilla initiated call for more transparency when retrieving user data by the U.S. government ("The Internet Sector calls for Greater Transparency in Requests for User Data " ), which in StopWatching.Us, an open letter to Congress of the United States came up.