500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network
2026-04-10
Cloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded....
Peering
The European Network Usage Fees proposal is about much more than a fight between Big Tech and Big European telcos
2023-05-08
There’s an important debate happening in Europe that could affect the future of the Internet. The European Commission is considering new rules for how networks connect to each other on the Internet....
Making peering easy with the new Cloudflare Peering Portal
2022-10-19
Cloudflare's peering portal allows users to log in with existing PeeringDB credentials and request peering sessions with cloudflare direct from the portal...
How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Knocked Google Offline
2018-11-15
Last Monday evening — 12 November 2018 — Google and a number of other services experienced a 74 minute outage. Incidents like this only serve to demonstrate just how much frailty is involved in how packets get from one point on the Internet to another....
Cloudflare Peering Portal - Beta
2018-10-22
Cloudflare launches Peering Portal - Beta to allow network operators and hosting providers to explore transit savings, performance benefits and traffic Management opportunities for peering with Cloudflare or hosting a node...
NANOG - the art of running a network and discussing common operational issues
2017-02-02
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the loci of modern Internet innovation and the day-to-day cumulative network-operational knowledge of thousands and thousands of network engineers....
Bandwidth Costs Around the World
2016-08-17
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world....
Kyiv, Ukraine: Cloudflare’s 78th Data Center
2016-04-26
Здоровенькі були! CloudFlare just turned up our newest datacenter in Kiev, the capital and largest city of Ukraine. Kiev is an old city with more than 1,000 years of history. ...
Think Global, Peer Local. Peer with CloudFlare at 100 Internet Exchange Points
2016-01-18
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) or Network Access Points (NAPs) facilities are where networks meet, participating in what's known as peering, which interconnects various parts of the global Internet....
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
2014-08-26
Over the last few months, there’s been increased attention on networks and how they interconnect. CloudFlare runs a large network that interconnects with many others around the world. ...
CloudFlare Joins Three More Peering Exchanges in Australia
2014-07-11
In the coming weeks, connectivity to CloudFlare in Australia is going to a new level. As part of CloudFlare’s ongoing upgrades program, we established connections to three new Internet exchanges: the Megaport Internet exchanges in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. ...
30% More Traffic in Less Than a Blink of an Eye
2012-04-18
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. ...
CloudFlare is Now Part of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX)
2012-03-28
CloudFlare is now connected to HKIX (Hong Kong Internet Exchange). HKIX is the largest Internet Exchange in Asia transferring around 200Gbit to its 160 ISP, Carrier and Content networks. ...