July 2009 - A team of entrepreneurs creates a content delivery network (CDN) to make the Internet faster and more reliable. And called it Cloudflare.
They faced various challenges in the early stages of development.
Yet their growth rate was spectacular.
Now they serve 20% of Internet traffic at 55 million HTTP requests per second.
And they did it with only 15 PostgreSQL clusters.
read about how they were able to support all they requests
@ecksmc I was one of the few beta testers for Cloudflare. Spoke with Matthew a few times as I was a salesperson for Canada's most advanced data center at the time. Sadly we couldn't come to an agreement on pricing for hosting his gear.
Below is the t-shirt every beta tester got when testing ended and they went live to the public. Each tester had their domain printed on it. 😀
@NorthernInvader that woulda been fun
i have done my fair share of beta testing things always enjoyed it