#Web archive code#
Though some features have undergone rewrite upon rewrite, other parts of our code have remained relatively untouched by the sands of time, a testament to their robustness. Through operating Always Online over the past 10 years, we’ve learned that fighting Internet downtime with simple, unobtrusive tools was something that our customers and their users deeply value. Always Online was born from that concern. The search engine’s crawler would report the downed site as non-responsive and the site would drop in their search ranking. These early customers feared that their host may go down at the same time a search engine was indexing their site. When Cloudflare started 10 years ago, most of our customers were small and running on hosts that were subject to frequent downtime. Receiving an error page is not ideal for anyone, so we try really hard to ensure that visitors to websites using Cloudflare can get some content, even if an origin is struggling. If we are unable to reach the origin, our edge tries a few more times to connect before marking the origin as being down and serving an error page to the visitor.
#Web archive update#
As part of fulfilling an uncached/expired origin fetch, we also update our cache to allow subsequent requests to be served to visitors faster and more securely.
Our edge first looks to see if we can respond with cached content if the requested content is not in cache, or is determined to be expired, we then obtain a fresh copy from the origin. When a person visits a Cloudflare website, a request is made from their laptop/phone/tablet/smart fridge to Cloudflare’s edge.
#Web archive archive#
When a website’s origin is down, Cloudflare will go to the Internet Archive to retrieve the most recently archived version of the site, so that visitors will still be able to view the site’s content. By partnering with the Internet Archive, Cloudflare is able to seamlessly deliver responses for unreachable websites from the Internet Archive, while the Internet Archive can continue their mission of archiving the web to provide access to all knowledge.Įnabling Always Online in the Cloudflare dashboard allows us to share your hostname with the Wayback Machine so that they can archive your website. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization that runs the Wayback Machine, a service which saves snapshots of billions of websites across the Internet. Should a customer’s origin go offline, timeout, or otherwise break, Always Online is there to step in and serve archived copies of webpages to visitors.
Today is exciting for all those who want the Internet to be stronger, more resilient, and have important redundancies: Cloudflare is pleased to announce a partnership with the Internet Archive to bring new functionality to our Always Online service.Īlways Online serves as insurance for our customers’ websites. But visitors don’t want to see error pages, they want to see content!
Cloudflare’s users collectively spend over four and a half years each day waiting for unreachable origin servers to respond with error messages. Every day, all across the Internet, something bad but entirely normal happens: thousands of origin servers go down, resulting in connection errors and frustrated users.
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