CloudFlare helps MoogMusic.com survive the Google.com doodle search traffic

... and yet I've seen CloudFlare cache fail many times (like a couple days ago, a story on HN front page about airplane bathrooms having ashtrays: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4005906" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4005906</a>).<p>Still a great service though, they would be big someday.

When Cloudflare has a high-profile client, they'll often blog about it. It's a smart marketing technique, because they lift on the publicity around the client.

I'm happy to hear that CloudFare was able to help out in this situation.<p>I am especially happy because I came to know CloudFare not through HN, but through constantly seeing their failed cache page.<p>Edit: That sounds really brash, but I sincerely do mean that they have lots of clients that I frequent and if their reliability improves, it will prove to be very valuable.

I'm very happy with my experiences with CloudFlare.<p>My blog has failed several times under load, despite cloudflare being in front of it, but at no time was it a lacking of cloudflare. It's that they are performing a CDN service which proxies the request for dynamic data back to the source (which in my case is the majority of the load, since my blog is very image-light).<p>Once I set up cloudflare to aggressively cache and serve a page under load, the weight on my blog's VPS was better (the load was down from 70 on a 2-core machine, and the I/O wait dropped from 95%).<p>Cloudflare does what they do very well, and their CEO (<a href="http://twitter.com/EastDakota" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/EastDakota</a>) is very, very responsive to requests for help.<p>I'm glad I'm using cloudflare.