Cloudflare

[Tony]

Our host just made Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/) available to us. Does anyone have any personal experience or even anecdotes to share? I'm having trouble seeing a downside, but I thought I'd ask before throwing the switch.

[Willis]

Cutesey commercial. I take it we'd give the free version a spin.

[Tony]

I'm especially wondering what's in it for the hosts, if it keeps loads low enough that people don't need VPS any longer.

[Tony]

Well, I turned it on. I have no idea if it's working but at least the forum hasn't exploded.

[Kensey]

Here's irony for you -- I just tried to look at this thread, and I got a CloudFlare error that there was a problem and no cached copy was available.

[Tony]

Cool. That must mean it's working. Oddly, I've been unable to find a way to verify that. However, they do warn that stats won't register until 24 hours and it looks like they are now finally showing something - 120 page views to be exact.

I have no idea what this specific error means, but there are a lot of settings and if it crops up a lot I'll diddle with them. Right now they're all on default.

[Willis]

Still workin-or doing sumthin'


502 Bad Gateway

cloudflare-nginx

When I clicked on a last post link a few minutes ago

[c_and_j]

8666


i keep getting it over and over

[Tony]

No trouble listed on their end since 5pm yesterday (GMT I think). I too saw an error this morning but it cleared up fairly quickly when I persisted. One would think if it's just congestion it wouldn't happen on a Saturday.