September 2010 Summaries

On September 21, 2010, Michelle Zatlyn announced that Damon Billian joined Cloudflare as a community manager. With his experience from PayPal, SimplyHired, and Mint.com, Damon is expected to strengthen the Cloudflare community, which plays an essential role in identifying new threats. He will be active on various platforms such as the Cloudflare Knowledge Base, Twitter, and Facebook. His infectious energy is anticipated to bring excitement to the team and its community.

On September 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michelle Zatlyn shared the arrival of Cloudflare's first t-shirts. The team is eager to distribute these shirts as a token of appreciation to their beta users.

Cloudflare was developed with the understanding that there was a significant demand for improved security and performance tools among small to mid-sized websites, which traditional enterprise solutions couldn't cater to due to their high cost and inaccessibility. The founders decided to leverage DNS to deploy Cloudflare, building a globally distributed network of DNS servers. Upon signing up with Cloudflare, users are assigned two "Ninja Nameservers™" (one male, one female), each representing the spirit of speed, defense, and stealthiness that these nameservers provide for their websites. These ninjas are designed by a talented artist and can be found on the company's Facebook page.

Cloudflare has expanded its data centers to three by adding a new location in San Jose. This expansion allows for faster site performance as visitors are routed to the closest data center, reducing latency and improving user experience. Faster website loading times have been shown to increase visitor engagement, which is why Cloudflare aims to provide fast site performance for any online website.