Cloudflare, Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration.
Cloudflare, Inc. adalah perusahaan Amerika Serikat yang menyediakan jasa jaringan pengantaran konten, pencegahan DDoS, keamanan Internet, dan peladen nama domain terdistribusi.
Prince and Holloway had previously collaborated on Project Honey Pot, a product of Unspam Technologies that partly inspired the basis of Cloudflare.
Prince dan Holloway sebelumnya berkolaborasi pada Project Honey Pot, sebuah produk dari Unspam Technologies yang sebagian menginspirasi dasar Cloudflare.
On August 15, 2019, Cloudflare submitted its S-1 filing for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker NET.
Pada 15 Agustus 2019, Cloudflare mengajukan dokumen S-1 untuk penawaran umum perdana di Bursa Efek New York dengan simbol saham NET.
It opened for public trading on September 13, 2019, at $15 per share.
Saham tersebut mulai diperdagangkan secara publik pada 13 September 2019 dengan harga $15 per saham.
In 2020, Cloudflare co-founder and COO Michelle Zatlyn was named president.
Pada 2020, salah satu pendiri dan COO Cloudflare Michelle Zatlyn diangkat menjadi presiden.
Cloudflare has acquired web-services and security companies, including StopTheHacker (February 2014), CryptoSeal (June 2014), Eager Platform Co. (December 2016), Neumob (November 2017), S2 Systems (January 2020), Linc (December 2020), Zaraz (December 2021), Vectrix (February 2022), Area 1 Security (February 2022), Nefeli Networks (March 2024), BastionZero (May 2024), and Kivera (October 2024).
Cloudflare telah mengakuisisi berbagai perusahaan layanan web dan keamanan, termasuk StopTheHacker (Februari 2014), CryptoSeal (Juni 2014), Eager Platform Co. (Desember 2016), Neumob (November 2017), S2 Systems (Januari 2020), Linc (Desember 2020), Zaraz (Desember 2021), Vectrix (Februari 2022), Area 1 Security (Februari 2022), Nefeli Networks (Maret 2024), BastionZero (Mei 2024), dan Kivera (Oktober 2024).
Since at least 2017, Cloudflare has used a wall of lava lamps at its San Francisco headquarters as a source of randomness for encryption keys, alongside double pendulums at its London offices and a Geiger counter at its Singapore offices.
Sejak setidaknya 2017, Cloudflare menggunakan dinding lampu lava di kantor pusatnya di San Francisco sebagai sumber keacakan untuk kunci enkripsi, bersama pendulum ganda di kantor London dan penghitung Geiger di kantor Singapura.
The lava lamp installation implements the Lavarand method, where a camera transforms the unpredictable shapes of the "lava" blobs into a digital image.
Instalasi lampu lava tersebut menerapkan metode Lavarand, di mana kamera mengubah bentuk tidak terduga dari gelembung "lava" menjadi gambar digital.
In Q4 2022, Cloudflare provided paid services to 162,086 customers.
Per Q4 2022, Cloudflare menyediakan layanan berbayar kepada 162.086 pelanggan.
In October 2024, Cloudflare won a lawsuit against patent troll Sable Networks.
Pada Oktober 2024, Cloudflare memenangkan gugatan melawan Sable Networks, sebuah patent troll.
Sable paid Cloudflare $225,000, granted it a royalty-free license to its patent portfolio, and dedicated its patents to the public by abandoning its patent rights.
Sable membayar Cloudflare $225.000, memberikan lisensi bebas royalti, dan menghibahkan paten mereka ke publik dengan meninggalkan hak paten tersebut.
In November 2025, it was announced Cloudflare had agreed to acquire Replicate, a San Francisco–based platform that enables software developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy open-source machine-learning models via an API without managing infrastructure.
Pada November 2025, diumumkan bahwa Cloudflare setuju mengakuisisi Replicate, sebuah platform berbasis San Francisco yang memungkinkan pengembang perangkat lunak menjalankan, menyesuaikan, dan menerapkan model pembelajaran mesin open-source melalui API tanpa mengelola infrastruktur.
On June 1, 2012, the hacker group UGNazi compromised some of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince's accounts and redirected visitors of the website 4chan to a Twitter account belonging to UGNazi.
Pada 1 Juni 2012, kelompok peretas UGNazi membobol beberapa akun milik CEO Cloudflare Matthew Prince dan mengalihkan pengunjung situs 4chan ke akun Twitter yang dimiliki UGNazi.
They allegedly used social engineering to trick AT&T support staff into giving them access to Prince's voicemail, then exploited a vulnerability in Cloudflare's use of Google's two-factor authentication system.
Mereka diduga menggunakan rekayasa sosial untuk menipu staf dukungan AT&T agar memberikan akses ke pesan suara Prince, lalu mengeksploitasi kerentanan dalam penggunaan sistem autentikasi dua faktor Google oleh Cloudflare.
Once in control of Prince's email account, UGNazi was able to redirect the 4chan domain through Cloudflare's database.
Setelah menguasai akun email Prince, UGNazi dapat mengarahkan domain 4chan melalui basis data Cloudflare.
On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a major global outage that caused widespread 500 errors, slowing down many platforms, making them unreachable or completely down for users around the world.
Pada 18 November 2025, Cloudflare mengalami gangguan global besar yang menyebabkan meluasnya galat 500, memperlambat banyak platform, membuatnya sulit dijangkau, atau sepenuhnya tidak dapat diakses oleh pengguna di seluruh dunia.
Affected services included Twitter, Spotify, Letterboxd, Uber, DoorDash, Indeed, Canva, Grindr, IKEA, Archive of Our Own, Wplace, news websites including Axios and Politico, AI and LLM services such as ChatGPT, Sora, and Microsoft Copilot, online games such as League of Legends, and any service relying on Cloudflare's security challenge software Turnstile.
Layanan yang terdampak mencakup Twitter, Spotify, Letterboxd, Uber, Indeed, Canva, Grindr, IKEA, Archive of Our Own, Wplace, situs berita seperti Axios dan Politico, layanan AI dan LLM seperti ChatGPT, Sora, dan Microsoft Copilot, gim daring seperti League of Legends, serta layanan yang mengandalkan perangkat lunak tantangan keamanan milik Cloudflare, Turnstile.
Access to WARP, Cloudflare's VPN service, was also briefly disabled in London.
Akses ke WARP, layanan VPN Cloudflare, juga sempat dinonaktifkan di London.
At 14:23 UTC, The Guardian reported that Cloudflare had released a fix.
Pada pukul 14:23 UTC, The Guardian melaporkan bahwa Cloudflare telah merilis perbaikan.
At 14:42 UTC, Cloudflare informed users on its status page that the fix had been implemented and that it would take some time for remaining post-deployment issues to be fixed.
Pada pukul 14:42 UTC, Cloudflare menginformasikan di halaman status bahwa perbaikan telah diterapkan dan dibutuhkan waktu untuk menyelesaikan masalah pascadeployment.
Cloudflare attributed the outage to a change in the configuration of a database, which caused an invalid file to be sent to all servers on the network.
Cloudflare menyebutkan bahwa gangguan tersebut disebabkan oleh perubahan konfigurasi pada sebuah database, yang menyebabkan berkas tidak valid dikirim ke seluruh server dalam jaringan.