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04-29-2011, 10:17 AM #1Newbie
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Website on Cloudflare speed
I recently started using cloudflare on my account because i thought it would improve the speed at which my wordpress website loads.
Is this true?
Http://www.scishark.com
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04-29-2011, 10:59 AM #2WHT Addict
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How would we know? Does it load faster for you?
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04-29-2011, 11:08 AM #3WHT Addict
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There is no point to compare your actual site's speed. However it loads fast for me.
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04-29-2011, 11:49 AM #4Always Ask...Don't Pretend!
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OP if you want to see the changes in latency do this...
Use your original nameservers - use Pingdom (ping tool).
Then use CloudFlare nameservers and repeat the Pingdom test.
You will see the difference...I did this recently and I have 125ms using my provider NS.
Then I got 25ms after using Cloudflare.█ Ask for Server IP & Nameservers IP to check if your reseller provider truly provides 100% white-label.
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05-06-2011, 05:54 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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CloudFlare
Last edited by damoncloudflare; 05-06-2011 at 05:55 AM. Reason: Adding additional info
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05-07-2011, 09:39 AM #6Newbie
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really there is a cloudflare wordpress plugin?
how does that compare to wpsuper cache
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05-07-2011, 12:44 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I have visited sites that claimed to be on CloudFlare and they load slower than my $5 shared hosting without using CloudFlare so I opted not to try it. Maybe my site is not popular enough to reap the benefits, or my host has better hardware. IDK.
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05-07-2011, 12:53 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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CloudFlare WordPress Plugin
Our plugin actually solves a different problem (original visitor IP, reporting spam, etc.) than a caching plugin (our service caches based off of DNS/file extensions). That being said, you shouldn't find any conflict with CloudFlare and using another caching plugin at all.
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05-07-2011, 12:55 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Loading speed
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05-07-2011, 12:59 PM #10Disabled
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I highly recommended CloudFlare, I use it on imgcrave.com
When it was disabled, I was easily going through 50GB of BW a day. When with CloudFlare, my hosting account barely uses any BW. They save me tons of resources, take care of the majority of all requests and really do expedite load times.
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05-07-2011, 01:02 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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My site is located in Dallas and I believe you have servers in Dallas. I understand that you only serve images, CSS, and Javascript but html and php comes from the originating server and that may be causing the delay.
I'm not knocking your service. Especially when it's free. If my sites get busy enough to warrant trying CloudFlare, I definitely will give it a shot.Hosting is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
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05-07-2011, 09:42 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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My personal blog -- rubiverse.net
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05-08-2011, 05:08 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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Hi Joker,
Understood. We have Dallas coming up right around the corner :-)
Note: An important thing to remember is that the speed also depends on where your visitors come from. If you have a lot of visitors coming from the West or Easy Coast right now, they would be hitting 2 datacenters on the West Coast & East Coast.
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05-08-2011, 11:38 AM #14Newbie
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How would we know? Does it load faster for you?
Last edited by faithme; 05-08-2011 at 11:42 AM.
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05-08-2011, 12:31 PM #15Registered User
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I'm in love with CloudFlare, no lie.
So much bandwidth saved, simply amazing for anything you host.
My vbulletin forum has never loaded faster.
Changing hosts couldn't be faster because of their professional site interface, took me less than 60 seconds to get completely used to it.
Their support is amazing.
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05-08-2011, 02:47 PM #16Newbie
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I've just moved my main site (verified) to CloudFlare and I'm very happy with. So far I have the free version, but would like to upgrade.
Can I expect even faster load times?Last edited by anon-e-mouse; 05-28-2011 at 06:23 AM.
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05-08-2011, 11:12 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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Last edited by anon-e-mouse; 05-28-2011 at 06:23 AM.
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05-08-2011, 11:14 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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05-12-2011, 06:38 PM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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Just added my first website... service looks promising!
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05-12-2011, 10:46 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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Hi moonwizard,
Great! Please let us know if you have any questions. Since WHT is fairly restrictive about posting links, I would recommend doing a quick search for "Top Tips after installing CloudFlare" on the CloudFlare blog to give you some quick things to look out for.
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05-21-2011, 03:05 AM #21Web Hosting Master
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05-21-2011, 04:09 AM #22Junior Guru Wannabe
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The only thing I can say is that sites that I've added to the system, for free, are loading extremely fast!!
And I live in Europe! France addedd? wow! :-)
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05-21-2011, 12:32 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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05-28-2011, 04:48 AM #24Newbie
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Its just change ns hosting company to ns cloudflare ?
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05-28-2011, 01:54 PM #25Web Hosting Guru
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I have tried to compare using isitup.org and Pingdom, and honestly I do not see that much of performance improvements in terms of load time. I think the biggest advantage of Cloudflare is it helps you to save the bandwidth if you are running a website with huge static contents (pictures etc) and also makes the website almost DDOS proof since the hackers won't be able to go to your server unless they use direct.yourdomain.tld, those are the primary reasons for me to use CloudFlare.
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