Partnership with Cloudflare

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un4saken

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To learn more about CloudFlare, you can watch the introductory video below and take a look at their blog. We are delighted to offer this great service to you and help make your website faster and safer.

[video=vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14700285[/video]
 

Genesis

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pan1 said:
Interesting, I will try it on one of my wordpress site.
The good part about Cloudflare is that Cloudflare has so many data centers and if someone looks at your Website, then it will open up to a data center closest to where the person is located. That means that the pages will download much faster (or are supposed to in theory).

Also, if your Website should go down temporarily, then Cloudflare will use the cache of your Website and your Website will still be "running".

Also, Cloudflare provides DDoS protection.

Finally, Cloudflare works with IPv6 IPs as well.

Of course there is always a down side. The down side of Cloudflare is that if you should make any changes to your Website you may not see the changes immediately - because of how the cache works with Cloudflare. Depending where you are, there may be a delay before you can see the changes you've made to your Website.

You're giving a third party that you don't know control of your name servers. For most people who use Cloudflare they have positive experiences, but there are some who have negative experiences too. The negative experiences are especially noticeable with Forums or Blogs, where Cloudflare can block users from opening accounts or posting comments. Cloudflare is especially strict with IPs from certain countries. There is a work around for that, in other words somewhere in the dashboard of Cloudflare you can make the settings for less security precautions. But if I should have a Forum or a blog where I need the traffic that comes from comments, I would hesitate before I use Cloudflare.
 

pan1

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Genesis said:
pan1 said:
Interesting, I will try it on one of my wordpress site.
The negative experiences are especially noticeable with Forums or Blogs, where Cloudflare can block users from opening accounts or posting comments. Cloudflare is especially strict with IPs from certain countries. There is a work around for that, in other words somewhere in the dashboard of Cloudflare you can make the settings for less security precautions. But if I should have a Forum or a blog where I need the traffic that comes from comments, I would hesitate before I use Cloudflare.

I think it will be fine if the target visitor of website is coming from local. And I had bad experience with a lot of comment spam to my wordpress.
 

Yozora

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Great news! PHP 7 already gave my sites a massive speed boost. Can't wait to see what it's like with CloudFlare added!

EDIT: Took me a little while to figure out how to get it working. In case anyone else has issues with this, once you log in, clicking the grey cloud icon next to the domain name you want will turn it on for that domain. It's working really well for me now though! The combined speed of PHP 7 & CloudFlare is super amazing.
 

Anomie

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Yozora said:
EDIT: Took me a little while to figure out how to get it working. In case anyone else has issues with this, once you log in, clicking the grey cloud icon next to the domain name you want will turn it on for that domain.

It doesn't work for subdomains, though, right?

Clicking the gray cloud for anomie.gi9.co just errors that the domain is already active on a different account. I've been messing with this for an hour or so with no success.
 

Anomie

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Anomie

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I think I may have worked this out by poking at it with a dirty stick.

We'll see. :undecided:
 

Genesis

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Anomie said:
I think I may have worked this out by poking at it with a dirty stick.

We'll see. :undecided:
I'm happy we can offer cloudflare, but personally I doubt I'll be using it for my own Websites, until I'm more convinced that the pros outway the cons.
 

Anomie

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Genesis said:
Anomie said:
I think I may have worked this out by poking at it with a dirty stick.

We'll see. :undecided:
I'm happy we can offer cloudflare, but personally I doubt I'll be using it for my own Websites, until I'm more convinced that the pros outway the cons.

No, I never got it to work. I think subdomains can only be set up by whoever owns the domain and then the page owner can turn it on/off in his cPanel. I think. When I try to turn it on in cPanel it always says it's registered to another user or something, even after monkeying around with my account on their site, which seems pretty screwy to me.

I wanted to use it because my small site loads so incredibly slowly that once in a while it actually times out. My understanding is that CloudFlare would fix this, that my content would be cached elsewhere or federated or something. I've been disinclined to put more time into developing my site thinking that people trying to access it would just blow it off rather than mess with the wait. I think this varies somewhat by where you are, as tests show it's pretty quick from some locations around the world at some times, but very slow from here most of the time.

Anyhow, setting up user subdomains seems like it would be an extremely common goal and I'm surprised they aren't clearer on how to do it.
 

Genesis

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Anomie said:
Anyhow, setting up user subdomains seems like it would be an extremely common goal and I'm surprised they aren't clearer on how to do it.
Have you tried a free domain? Maybe you could experiment with a free dot.tk domain? You could add on the domain to your cPanel account as an add on domain and see how it works with Cloudflare.

What I'd do first is use a migration plugin like WP Clone to copy your WordPress site. Then create the add on domain in cPanel. Then set up a copy of your Website in the add on domain. Then experiment with whether Cloudflare works with it. That way if it doesn't work you can just delete the add on domain for no loss of anything.
 

Anomie

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Genesis said:
Have you tried a free domain? Maybe you could experiment with a free dot.tk domain? You could add on the domain to your cPanel account as an add on domain and see how it works with Cloudflare.

What I'd do first is use a migration plugin like WP Clone to copy your WordPress site. Then create the add on domain in cPanel. Then set up a copy of your Website in the add on domain. Then experiment with whether Cloudflare works with it. That way if it doesn't work you can just delete the add on domain for no loss of anything.

That's an interesting workaround. I'll try it.

I have to change nameservers for the site, supposedly, for CloudFlare's. How do I do that?

Also, CloudFlare may be choking on not having a domain registrar for goetheplatz.tk -- it mentions it, but I don't know if it's a deal-killer.
 

Anomie

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Genesis said:
I'm happy we can offer cloudflare, but personally I doubt I'll be using it for my own Websites, until I'm more convinced that the pros outway the cons.

I've been reading a lot of stuff on Quora about CloudFlare and if possible, I still think I'll try it. It looks like I was right that subdomains are pretty much out...or at least that it appears to a lot of people more experienced than I am that subs are.
 

Genesis

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Anomie said:
Also, CloudFlare may be choking on not having a domain registrar for goetheplatz.tk -- it mentions it, but I don't know if it's a deal-killer.
Don't quite understand what you mean? The domain registrar for goetheplatz.tk is freenom. Or did you mean something different?
 

Anomie

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Genesis said:
Anomie said:
Also, CloudFlare may be choking on not having a domain registrar for goetheplatz.tk -- it mentions it, but I don't know if it's a deal-killer.
Don't quite understand what you mean? The domain registrar for goetheplatz.tk is freenom. Or did you mean something different?

That may explain it right there as I believe it says that freenom has to be changed to different nameservers:

eva.ns.cloudflare.com
gabe.ns.cloudflare.com


...or it won't work. The registration of goetheplatz.tk is waiting for that, it says. Not sure where/how to do it.
 
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