I'm starting to love Cloudflare now.

LucianDev

LucianDev

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I really do enjoy their service they offer, I use Cloud Flare for website. I only signed up for it due to the amount of Attacks that my website received. Sense then Cloud Flare as saved my site a lot of resources.
Only thing I don't like is that when I update the site, it takes awhile to come into effect because of Cloud Flare, took me a while to realize that Cloud Flare was causing this problem, and then I learned how to fix it, which is when I update I can put Cloud Flare in Dev Mode and makes changes to the site.
It's rather annoying after a while if you do a lot of updates, but over all Cloud Flare is helpful and I enjoy their services.
 
damoncloudflare

damoncloudflare

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Hi,

LucianDev said:
I really do enjoy their service they offer, I use Cloud Flare for website. I only signed up for it due to the amount of Attacks that my website received. Sense then Cloud Flare as saved my site a lot of resources.
Only thing I don't like is that when I update the site, it takes awhile to come into effect because of Cloud Flare, took me a while to realize that Cloud Flare was causing this problem, and then I learned how to fix it, which is when I update I can put Cloud Flare in Dev Mode and makes changes to the site.
It's rather annoying after a while if you do a lot of updates, but over all Cloud Flare is helpful and I enjoy their services.
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Thanks. What do you think would work as far as Dev Mode? You also have the option of purging your cache as well.
 
LucianDev

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damoncloudflare said:
Thanks. What do you think would work as far as Dev Mode? You also have the option of purging your cache as well.
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As of right now, I update my site once every 3-7 days. So right now, doing those small steps to change the settings isn't very annoying. But when I updated the site Daily it was rather annoying. However for me this isn't an issue.

If anything could change, say say I have cache be purged every hour. Or if that takes up to many resources for the company, make in an option in the Control Panel of Cloud Flare. This way when website developers / designers update the sites, it only takes an hour to go into effect to where everyone can see it and web developers won't have to go into the CP of Cloud Flare and do it them selfs. Then again, I don't think people make major changes like that to their site everyday.

But having a shorter time period of the cache at least as an option in CP would be rather nice in my opinion.
 
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Hi,

LucianDev said:
As of right now, I update my site once every 3-7 days. So right now, doing those small steps to change the settings isn't very annoying. But when I updated the site Daily it was rather annoying. However for me this isn't an issue.

If anything could change, say say I have cache be purged every hour. Or if that takes up to many resources for the company, make in an option in the Control Panel of Cloud Flare. This way when website developers / designers update the sites, it only takes an hour to go into effect to where everyone can see it and web developers won't have to go into the CP of Cloud Flare and do it them selfs. Then again, I don't think people make major changes like that to their site everyday.

But having a shorter time period of the cache at least as an option in CP would be rather nice in my opinion.
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I think the solution to this problem, at least if other people are updating the site, is to use the API to turn on Dev Mode (or purge cache).
 
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Paul0130

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We have this integrated for clients, people seem to love it.

Tried it ourselves at one point, did very well.
 
eva2000

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Sydney DC !!!!

Yup bandwidth prices here are crazy and our Aussie dollar probably won't help you in terms of currency exchange rates heh.

Testing on of my sites which is on cloudflare hosted in Chicago against my location in Brisbane, Australia.

24ms average ping times nice ! That's nearly 1/9th the speed of what you usually get so 9x times faster ping times.

Code: 
ping mysite.com

Pinging mysite.com [108.162.xxx.xx] with 32
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=5

Ping statistics for 108.162.xxx.xx:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 26ms, Average = 24ms

Code: 
tracert mysite.com

Tracing route to mysite.com [108.162.xxx.xx]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms     8 ms     7 ms  10.205.xxx.xxx
  2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  58.160.20.200
  3     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  58.160.23.238
  4    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  172.18.241.233
  5    17 ms    12 ms    11 ms  Bundle-Ether10.cha47.Brisbane.tels
  6    12 ms    10 ms     8 ms  Bundle-Ether4.cha-core4.brisbane.t
  7    26 ms    35 ms    35 ms  Bundle-Ether11.ken-core4.Sydney.te
  8    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  TenGigabitEthernet7-1.ken45.Sydney
  9    23 ms    24 ms    23 ms  pacnet2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.9
 10    25 ms    25 ms    24 ms  te0-2-0-0.cr1.syd5.asianetcom.net
 11    24 ms    25 ms    25 ms  gi3-1-0.gw1.syd2.asianetcom.net [2
 12    24 ms    28 ms    25 ms  CDF-0011.asianetcom.net [203.192.1
 13    25 ms    25 ms    24 ms  108.162.xxx.xx

Trace complete.
 
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damoncloudflare

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Hi,

eva2000 said:
Sydney DC !!!!

Yup bandwidth prices here are crazy and our Aussie dollar probably won't help you in terms of currency exchange rates heh.

Testing on of my sites which is on cloudflare hosted in Chicago against my location in Brisbane, Australia.

24ms average ping times nice ! That's nearly 1/9th the speed of what you usually get so 9x times faster ping times.

Code: 
ping mysite.com

Pinging mysite.com [108.162.xxx.xx] with 32
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=5
Reply from 108.162.xxx.xx: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=5

Ping statistics for 108.162.xxx.xx:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 26ms, Average = 24ms

Code: 
tracert mysite.com

Tracing route to mysite.com [108.162.xxx.xx]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms     8 ms     7 ms  10.205.xxx.xxx
  2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  58.160.20.200
  3     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  58.160.23.238
  4    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  172.18.241.233
  5    17 ms    12 ms    11 ms  Bundle-Ether10.cha47.Brisbane.tels
  6    12 ms    10 ms     8 ms  Bundle-Ether4.cha-core4.brisbane.t
  7    26 ms    35 ms    35 ms  Bundle-Ether11.ken-core4.Sydney.te
  8    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  TenGigabitEthernet7-1.ken45.Sydney
  9    23 ms    24 ms    23 ms  pacnet2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.9
 10    25 ms    25 ms    24 ms  te0-2-0-0.cr1.syd5.asianetcom.net
 11    24 ms    25 ms    25 ms  gi3-1-0.gw1.syd2.asianetcom.net [2
 12    24 ms    28 ms    25 ms  CDF-0011.asianetcom.net [203.192.1
 13    25 ms    25 ms    24 ms  108.162.xxx.xx

Trace complete.
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Great to hear that the response times are way better! Also added Seattle last night:) Goal is to have six more online shortly, including additional dcs in Europe.
 
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G3Hawkeye

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last time i used cloudflare with my MyBB forum it wouldnt let me access the site because no Cached content was available, took it around two-three days before it was back to normal
 
pinkiepie

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some have trouble with using it for invision power board have the issues been worked out? I never installed it myself and I got a new IPB to run and we have not installed CF yet. However, I hear there are several issues. Please clarify. Thank you.
 
damoncloudflare

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Hi,

G3Hawkeye said:
last time i used cloudflare with my MyBB forum it wouldnt let me access the site because no Cached content was available, took it around two-three days before it was back to normal
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Where were you seeing this on the site (site admin section, main site, etc.)?

Generally speaking, this is going to happen if something is blocking requests from our IPS & you would want to make sure they are whitelisted on your server and with your hosting provider. You would also want to make sure that you have something to restore original visitor IP in MyBB, such as:

Admin CP > Configuration > Server and Optimization Options > Scrutinize User's IP address? > Yes

Or

This MyBB plugin for CloudFlare



Tips to ensure CloudFlare's IPs are accepted by your server If your server origin is online, then: 1) Make sure that you're not blocking CloudFlare IPs in .htaccess, iptables , or your firewall. 2) Make sure your hosting provider isn't rate limiting or blocking IP requests from the CloudFlare IPs and ask them to whitelist the IP addresses below:

204.93.240.0/24 (204.93.240.0 - 204.93.240.255)
204.93.177.0/24 (204.93.177.0 - 204.93.177.255)
199.27.128.0/21 (199.27.128.0 - 199.27.135.255)
173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)
103.22.200.0/22 (103.22.200.0 - 103.22.203.255)
141.101.64.0/18 (141.101.64.0 - 141.101.127.255)
108.162.192.0/18 (108.162.192.0 - 108.162.255.255)
190.93.240.0/20 (190.93.240.0-190.93.255.255)
2400:CB00:/32 (2400:CB00:0000:0000 - 2400:CB00:FFFF:FFFF)
2606:4700:/32 (2606:4700:0000:0000 - 2606::4700:FFFF:FFFF)
2803:f800:/32 (2803:f800:0:0:0:0:0:0 - 2803:f800:FFFF:FFFF)

3) Make sure that you're operating off of the most recent versions of Bad Behavior or mod_security. mod_security's core rules aren't blocking CloudFlare requests.
 
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