Best of Cloudflare — 2023

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    Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

    Cloudflare has eliminated CAPTCHAs and made Turnstile, its bot-stopping solution, available for free to all website operators. Turnstile's checkbox solution is just as effective as a CAPTCHA without requiring user interactivity. It uses various in-browser tests to analyze browser characteristics and detect bots. Over 1 million automated signup attempts have been blocked by Turnstile. During the beta, Turnstile received feedback and added new features, such as support for additional languages and error code transparency. Turnstile is now in general availability and is free to use.

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    Introducing HTTP/3 Prioritization

    HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities is available on all plans on Cloudflare. For paid users, there is an enhanced version available that improves performance even more. This change is compatible with all mainstream web browsers and can improve key metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint by up to 37% in our test.

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    Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework

    Oxy is a Rust-based proxy framework developed by Cloudflare. It offers a wide range of capabilities, including advanced traffic analysis and manipulation, support for various communication protocols, customization options, and comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities. Oxy leverages the safety and performance benefits of Rust and is designed to be flexible and scalable. It plays a critical role in Cloudflare's efforts to modernize and improve its architecture.

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    Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack

    Cloudflare mitigates a record-breaking DDoS attack of 71 million requests per second. The attacks were HTTP/2-based and targeted websites protected by Cloudflare. The post discusses the increase in DDoS attacks and provides steps to defend against them.

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