Cloudfare: anyone using it?

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http://www.cloudflare.com/overview

One of my buddies sent me a link to it earlier today, and I'm now just looking it. So, does anyone here use it or know anything about it?

 

I WAS using it for a few sites (Pluto Hosting & Chatting Time), but in the end disabled it on CT because I kept getting complaints that users could never access the forums

Might disable it on the main PH site if I keep getting more complaints

 

I havent used but i know what it will do.

It will help when your server was offline by showing your site from their cache.

 

I'd rather make sure my server was never offline over depending on another site to make sure my site shows correctly.

 

I used CF briefly. CF was great when it worked they had some scaling issues when the first got big.

I'd definitely give them a shot again though.

 

Dang that really sucks. I know I told my buddy I don't like having my DNS on another site or service[I'd rather it stay on my host]/

 

I've used it on my hosting company once and to be honest within hours reverted back to using without it because of the DNS, we would have to change the nameservers to theirs and have people change name servers , so i personally decieded that it would just be a total waste of time....,

 

Been running Cloud Flare again for a couple weeks. I did have to tweak one of the optimization settings as the upload a file button disappeared on XF. If you're all intrested I'll take a look.

Here's my stats for the last 7 days.

 

This post was started by one of the site owners in our community, and he reported good things about CloudFare, he made the thread cloudfare seriously use it
Have you moved Cloudfare all together, or still using? @Dan Hutter same to you

 

I'm still running Cloudflare in front of quite a few WP sites and my XF board. I disabled it on one board that was running vB 4.1.11 as it caused the Admin CP to constantly refresh (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=283543). I've since upgraded the license and but didn't bother re-enabling CF on that site.

Other than that it's okay. Once in a blue moon I'll get a 'site offline' message when trying to browse my board even though the server is up.

TBH, the only thing I see it doing is saving me is bandwidth as far as I can tell. Meh, when I move the DJ board back to vBulletin I'll disable CF if the ACP refresh isn't fixed.

 

I disabled it a while ago now, but my clients can still enable it via the CloudFlare cPanel feature that was installed a while back.

When I looked at the stats before I disabled it, it wasn't doing much except block genuine visitors, and any nasty visitors trying to exploit the system would get blocked by the mod_security rules in place anyway.

Also I refuse to pay them to enable cloudflare SSL support on the main PH domain since that is where our client area is now.

 

So since you've moved back to vBulletin is the refresh issue fixed with cloudflair?

 

I don't know. Changed servers Sunday and dropped CF.

 

I used to use it but my host offered me an alternative so switched over.

 

Interesting to see this data: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/cl...ageviews-all-time-70b-monthlies-500m-uniques/

So many websites use it...