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Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster

Posted by Soulskill on from the missing-the-punchline dept.

EastDakota writes "CloudFlare was originally conceived by the team behind the open source community. Project Honey Pot as an easy way to protect any website from hackers and spammers. The concern from the beginning was that it would add latency. It was quite a surprise when the free service launched 8 months ago and ended up speeding up websites by 60%."

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  1. Re:slashvertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I the article and I the entire thing perfectly.

  2. Re:slashvertisement by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

        No, it's Old English. "What Fuck Thee?" Roughly meaning "I found you in the barn with a sheep and a goat. Which one were you fucking?"

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  3. Re:slashvertisement by chill · · Score: 2, Funny

    That wasn't a sheep and a goat, that was your wife and daughter.

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