Cloudflare info/tutorial for IPB

[gabs007]

On 22/11/2017 at 8:46 PM, jair101 said:

It is worth it only if you have an image heavy community. Then you can use Polish and Mirage, which help with image optimization. If you don't need that, I believe you are perfectly fine with the free plan. 

I do have an image heavy community.  
but I'm more concerned about the main page. So I guess I will have to evaluate the option of paying

Thank you

[ASTRAPI]

You can test the free one and then is very easy to upgrade if you need more speed.....

It is also very easy to downgrade if you fill that you didn't get much speed

[Chatgroup]

Railgun seemed to slow my site and mirage caused quite a few image load issues (fairly image heavy site)

[jcdesign]

I tried and bought the pro solution. My site contains almost only pictures and I could not notice any difference at all when I enabled Polish and with Lossy setting. Have tried GTmetrix since yesterday so this feels completely meaningless to pay for.

[sobrenome]

On 30/08/2017 at 8:46 AM, Netherlord said:

I get a 50% reduction in latency. You can check the graph in cloudflare analytics.

For my website was about 10% less, but at such at high cost that did no worth about 50 ms less...

[ASTRAPI]

The free Cloudflare account is good for the most cases.

 

[sobrenome]

On 30/08/2017 at 8:46 AM, Netherlord said:

I get a 50% reduction in latency. You can check the graph in cloudflare analytics.

For my website was about 10% less, but at such at high cost that did no worth about 50 ms less...

[jair101]

On 11/24/2017 at 6:22 PM, jcdesign said:

I tried and bought the pro solution. My site contains almost only pictures and I could not notice any difference at all when I enabled Polish and with Lossy setting. Have tried GTmetrix since yesterday so this feels completely meaningless to pay for.

Try with Chrome, the webp conversion brings the most sizeable improvement imo. 

[autumnwalker]

I'm struggling with how to optimize CloudFlare for IPB - I'm getting like 4% requests cached and about 10% bandwidth cached. That seems really low to me - is it?

[SJ77]

I still wish there was a way to run IPB through cloudflare and totally exclude downloads app. 

The 100MB cloudflare limit destroys what I do with downloads app. 

My only soulution so far is to avoid cloudflare altogether. 

[Nathan Explosion]

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172316-How-do-I-exclude-a-specific-URL-from-Cloudflare-s-caching-

[jair101]

1 hour ago, autumnwalker said:

I'm struggling with how to optimize CloudFlare for IPB - I'm getting like 4% requests cached and about 10% bandwidth cached. That seems really low to me - is it?

Yeap, something is wrong. I am getting 2:1 cached:non-cached requeests and bandwidth and I feel it can be optimized more.

First check the TTL of the cache, I think there is a setting that cloudflare can manage it or it can be taken from your webserver settings. 

[autumnwalker]

3 minutes ago, jair101 said:

First check the TTL of the cache, I think there is a setting that cloudflare can manage it or it can be taken from your webserver settings. 

Was depending on CF to set the one month TTL, but implemented the following today:

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On

# CSS and JS expiration: 1 month after request
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"

# Image files expiration: 1 year after request
ExpiresByType image/bmp "access plus 1 year" 
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jp2 "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/pipeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/tiff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/ico "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/ico "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/ico "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/vnd.wap.wbmp "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.wap.wbxml "access plus 1 year"

# Other optimizations
ExpiresByType application/x-gzip "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

 

[SJ77]

3 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172316-How-do-I-exclude-a-specific-URL-from-Cloudflare-s-caching-

HI, This will prevent the URL from being CACHED but doesn't provide exemption from the 100MB per single file rule. IE: downloads app will be limited in file size per submission to 100MB or less. Not great.

[jcdesign]

Someone who has experience with Argo?  When testing the page load was faster. The site feels faster overall.

[ASTRAPI]

Argo can help for dns but expensive in my opinion :-)

Also if most of your users are coming from one country you will not benefit a lot....

[Mercury Forever]

I had some problems with the cloudflare, since at the time of adding new themes, WAF catalogs them as HTML / SQL injection.

The only way to resolve these events was to whiten the IPS addresses of the users, but over time it is unfeasible because of the large number of users.

[ASTRAPI]

Most of the times using friendly urls (will avoid the = ? and a few characters on the link that may false detected as sql injection attempts) will solve that issue but even if you must disable WAF you will be benefit from other optimizations that they offer and ofcourse from the huge global dns network that they use with 120+ datacenters around the globe

Not to mention also the dns changes that are almost instant !