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>> we are on our fourth generation (G4) of servers. Our first generation (G1) servers were stock Dell PowerEdge servers. We deployed these in early 2010

Wow, 4 generations of servers in 3 years. Talk about iterating quickly.

Was Cloudflare bootstrapped or did they start with a huge investment? 23 datacenters full of equipment sounds like a lot to me.



I suspect they have 23 cages, not full datacenters.


More than that -- and different amounts in different locations (e.g., London has more servers than Toronto) -- but correct that no where are we filling whole buildings with gear.


They raised 2.05mm in '09[1] and a 20mm round[2] in '11. I don't remember anything pre-series A on them. :)

[1] - http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/25/cloudflare-floats-2-05m-eq... [2] - http://gigaom.com/2011/07/12/cloudflare-funding/


We didn't raise any angel or non-institutional rounds -- Series A was our first round of funding.




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