A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers

CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling over a trillion requests through its network every month. To ensure efficiency, the company owns and operates all equipment in its 23 locations worldwide. In this article, Matthew Prince shares insights into the design of their fourth generation (G4) servers, which are built to handle high traffic volumes and DDoS attacks. The G4 servers feature increased storage capacity with SSDs, more RAM for caching popular resources, and upgraded CPU performance from Intel's Sandybridge chipset. Additionally, the network interfaces have been improved from 1Gbps to 10Gbps using Solarflare network cards. These enhancements enable better performance while reducing power consumption.