Which Cloudflare!?

[Jude Perera]

Hey does anyone here use cloudflare? I just set it up for my site and I cannot tell if it is making my site faster or slower and if i should keep google pagespeed on.

What cloudflare settings ( cdn, +basic, +full ) do you guys use for the forum.

[Jelly Belly™]

cloudflare (pro) made my site (60,000 members, 3.5 million posts) considerably slower and at least twice a week it would be completely unavailable along with the rest of cloudflare, which means you can't even log into your dashboard to disable it

I still use them to host my dns but the service is disabled and I'd probably only resume it in an emergency such as being ddos'd

[Ichirō]

I'd probably only resume it in an emergency such as being ddos'd

Which would be totally useless unless you had the business or enterprise package !

[Jelly Belly™]

Which would be totally useless unless you had the business or enterprise package !

yes, I'd have to upgrade my package for that but upgrade is instant with a credit card and you can downgrade again the following month, or at least you could last time I looked

[Dmacleo]

pro plan will help for a short time with ddos. they won't immediately kick to your server.

for a WAF they are not too bad for price. worth looking at, good for some bad for others.

[blair]

1) Cloudflare offers a great DNS service, not to mention a great CDN, for free. The rest is really just icing on the cake. 2) Cloudflare DDoS protection is misunderstood and much maligned because of it. If you're a target of a DDoS it's most likely a script-kiddie utilizing a rent-a-DDoS. There are many tools available. Crazy how easy and cheap it has become. One thing these tools have in common is that they don't DDoS your domain name, they DDoS your server's IP address. If your IP address is known, it doesn't matter if you're using the free or enterprise service at Cloudflare, they can't help you. You better hope your host has the skills and hardware to mitigate. Better yet, proxy your IP address. Then you'll be protected from (most) DDoS, even on the free plan! Cloudflare recently posted on their blog with most you need to know: http://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-prevention-protecting-the-origin

Disclaimer: I neither work for, or have any affiliation with Cloudflare. If you asked me 2 years ago, I would have said their service is a joke. They've made great improvements. For most people, their service will offer better page load times, better server security, faster search engine indexing, and DDoS protection (if your IP is proxied).