Smokey Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Should I enable CloudFlare on my site? What are the pro's/con's of having it enabled? I just noticed it in my cpanel earlier and got curious. Please advise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJoker Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Some say it speeds up the site by caching certain files on CloudFlare servers all over the world (closer to your visitors) and relieves the server of some of the work to deliver the content. It also affords your site some protection from hackers and spammers. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteKs Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 It can significantly increase your bandwidth usage (due to frequent caching access) all depending on your web site's activity/size. For me in Australia the service (back then) was fairly unreliable in terms of speed. Just try it but keep an eye on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJoker Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Did you mean to say increase or decrease? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Both http://www.hawkhost.com/cloudflare and http://www.hawkhost.com/Cloudflare/faq may be useful for all who are reading this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteKs Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Did you mean to say increase or decrease? Exactly as I wrote! I tested CF early this year and caching activity was quite MAD on my low traffic web site flooding all logs wit CF access - I stopped using it after a few weeks watching it bloat my bandwidth usage. I discussed that with CF support and they promised improvement. Not sure what the situation now is. CF is a good concept but needs improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 I noticed with cloudflare, I am not directed to the nearest datacenter (I am in the UK) and still go direct to USA and not Amsterdam, NL or Frankfurt, DE. It seems to be something with my ISP (Virgin Media cable connection), for why I am being sent to the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJoker Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Interesting Steks and Garry. I don't use it as I am close to the Dallas data center and so is my target audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted August 29, 2011 Report Share Posted August 29, 2011 I didn't notice a huge difference in speed after I activated it, in fact after a while I noticed my site became slower so i disabled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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