October 2010 Summaries

On October 10, 2010, Matthew Prince announced that Cloudflare reached a significant milestone by serving over 1 billion requests in the last 30 days. The company's network is designed to handle much higher traffic levels, but this achievement highlights the impressive scale of what it currently powers.

Matthew Prince shares the story of launching their startup, Cloudflare, at TechCrunch in 2010. Despite initial doubts about whether they would be a good fit for the event, the company experienced significant growth following its launch. In just one week, traffic through their network increased almost tenfold, and they went from being ranked as the 1,000th largest site online to one of the top 50 sites in terms of page views and unique visitors. Prince highly recommends startups to consider launching at TechCrunch events due to the professionalism and support provided by the team.