Cloudflare
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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. The company's services act primarily as a reverse proxy between website visitors and a customer's hosting provider, improving performance and protecting against malicious traffic.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Company.logo
- Cloudflare Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.image
- Cloudflare office entrance area.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 250px
- Company.image_caption
- Cloudflare office in San Francisco
- Company.industry
- Information and communications technology
- Company.brands
- 1.1.1.1
- Company.services
- Reverse proxy, edge computing, streaming media, identity management, virtual private network
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.num_employees
- 5,156
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2025
- Company.revenue_year
- 2025
- Company.operating_income
- −
- Company.income_year
- 2025
- Company.net_income
- −
- Company.net_income_year
- 2025
- Company.assets_year
- 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- History
- Products
- Artificial intelligence
- DDoS mitigation
- Edge computing
- Internet security
- SASE
- VPN
- Other services
- Outages and issues
- Intrusions
- 2016–2017 data leak
- November 2025 outage
- December 2025 outage
- ACME WAF bypass
- Controversies
- Service terminations
- ''The Daily Stormer''
- Mass shootings and 8chan
- Kiwi Farms
- Switter
- Terrorism
- Crime
- Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Copyright lawsuit
- See also
- References
- External links
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. The company's services act primarily as a reverse proxy between website visitors and a customer's hosting provider, improving performance and protecting against malicious traffic.
Cloudflare was founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019 under the ticker symbol NET. Cloudflare has since expanded its offerings to include edge computing through its Workers platform, a public DNS resolver (1.1.1.1), and a VPN service known as WARP. In recent years, the company has integrated artificial intelligence into its infrastructure, acquiring companies such as Replicate and launching tools to manage AI bots and scrapers. According to W3Techs, Cloudflare is used by approximately 21.3% of all websites on the Internet as of January 2026.
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