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  • #195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

    #195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

    In this episode, Saumya Majumder joins Nathan Wrigley to discuss innovations at BigScoots, focusing on high-performance WordPress hosting and Cloudflare-powered architecture. They unpack the recent global Cloudflare outage, the complexities of internet infrastructure, and Cloudflare’s transparency in response. Saumya explains advanced caching technologies, BigScoots’ direct physical connection with Cloudflare, and their custom cache plugin, highlighting…

    Nathan Wrigley

  • Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress

    Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress

    Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for WordPress. The new service boasts staggering performance improvements for sites that might otherwise be slowed down by shared hosting, slow database lookups, or sluggish plugins: Our testing… showed a 72% reduction in Time to First…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Cloudflare Launches New Web Analytics Product Focusing on Privacy

    Cloudflare Launches New Web Analytics Product Focusing on Privacy

    In pursuit of “democratizing web analytics,” Cloudflare announced it is launching privacy-first analytics as a new standalone product. The company is entering a market that has been dominated by Google Analytics for years but with a major differentiating feature – it will not track individual users by a cookie or IP address to show unique…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Cloudflare Memory Leak Exposes Private Data

    Cloudflare Memory Leak Exposes Private Data

    Cloudflare, a content distribution network used by many popular sites, published detailed information about a security vulnerability that leaked user information, some of which was private, including passwords, private messages, etc. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google’s Project Zero team. The issue stems from a memory leak in…

    Jeff Chandler

  • CloudFlare Releases Major 3.0 Update to Official WordPress Plugin

    CloudFlare Releases Major 3.0 Update to Official WordPress Plugin

    Last week CloudFlare released the first update to its official WordPress plugin in approximately six months. Although the release post refers to the update as “CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin,” it is essentially a major rewrite and a jump from version 1.3.25 to 3.0. The previous changelog has been wiped out and replaced with notes for…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare

    Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare

    Sucuri launched a new free performance tool today. The Global Website Performance Tester allows anyone to enter a URL and get a quick assessment of how fast the website is loading from 13 globally distributed testing stations. Results include three key metrics: connection time, time to first byte (TTFB) and total load time. At the…

    Sarah Gooding