Cloudflare Partners with the Internet Archive to Keep the Web Always Online™
September 17 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Partnership ensures website visitors have
access to recent content when origin servers are unreachable
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced that it has partnered with the Internet Archive, a
nonprofit digital library that runs a digital archive of the World
Wide Web called the Wayback Machine. By partnering with the
Internet Archive, Cloudflare is strengthening its Always Online
solution that makes sites available when their origin servers are
down and keeps the Internet functioning for users globally.
Launched in 2010, Always Online is like insurance for websites.
It caches a static version of websites, so, if for any reason, your
web host or service provider goes down, it will kick in to keep
your site online. Without it, a website risks reputation damage, a
decreased user experience and even a drop in search ranking if the
website's origin goes offline, experiences a timeout, or otherwise
breaks. Now, Cloudflare’s Always Online service will fetch the most
recently archived version of a site from the Internet Archive, an
additional safeguard, if one cannot be found in the local cache. To
do this, the Internet Archive uses the same crawling infrastructure
that has allowed its Wayback Machine to archive over 465 billion
web pages to date.
“The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has an impressive
infrastructure that can archive the web at scale,” said Matthew
Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “By working together, we
can take another step toward making the Internet more resilient by
stopping server issues for our customers and in turn from
interrupting businesses and users online.”
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been archiving the
public web since 1996 and to date, has preserved and made available
more than 468 billion web pages and more than 45 petabytes of
information. Cloudflare customers can easily upgrade to the new
Always Online service with one click in the Cloudflare dashboard.
This will allow the Wayback Machine to crawl and archive its
website at regular intervals.
“Through our partnership with Cloudflare, we are learning about,
and archiving, web pages we might not have otherwise known about,
and by integrating with Cloudflare’s Always Online service,
archives of those pages are available to people trying to access
them if they become unavailable via the live web,” said Mark
Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet
Archive.
To learn more about Always Online and how it works, please check
out the resources below.
- Cloudflare Always Online
- Cloudflare Blog
- Internet Archive Blog
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a
mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s platform
protects and accelerates any Internet application online without
adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic
routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter
with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement
in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare
was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures 2018 list
and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast
Company in 2019. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has
offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, Seattle, WA, New York, NY,
San Jose, CA, Washington, D.C., Lisbon, London, Munich, Beijing,
Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.
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Daniella Vallurupalli press@cloudflare.com
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