Anyone else that uses CloudFlare having issues?
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Well, I got one just like it:
My site was down for several hours last night. Didn't see anything in Cloudflare. I opened a ticket with XenForo and when the site came back online I figured they had fixed it. Then got an email from them that this was a Cloudflare outage. Lovely.
So. Cloudflare.
I always avoided going with them until last week when the number of bots became insane (38,000), against 12 or 12 active members, and being on Cloud hosting I had very little tools to fight them. Well, it's working out real well. Yes, I've blocked every country I could without shooting ourselves in the foot and that alone brought down visitor count to normal levels. And I am happy with that.
But my site is slower, images load slower, like often rolling onto the board. Even a wall with thumbnails will show some of them popping up just that fraction of a second later. This is not good. I have a photography forum and images should appear instantly. And they did. Until Cloudflare. And yet Cloudflare states it will speed up sites because of caching but I'm not seeing that at all.
So, why is my site slower, showing lag? What am I doing wrong? Because the bots may be down but my site was speedier with 30k of them around and no Cloudflare.
My site was down for several hours last night. Didn't see anything in Cloudflare. I opened a ticket with XenForo and when the site came back online I figured they had fixed it. Then got an email from them that this was a Cloudflare outage. Lovely.
So. Cloudflare.
I always avoided going with them until last week when the number of bots became insane (38,000), against 12 or 12 active members, and being on Cloud hosting I had very little tools to fight them. Well, it's working out real well. Yes, I've blocked every country I could without shooting ourselves in the foot and that alone brought down visitor count to normal levels. And I am happy with that.
But my site is slower, images load slower, like often rolling onto the board. Even a wall with thumbnails will show some of them popping up just that fraction of a second later. This is not good. I have a photography forum and images should appear instantly. And they did. Until Cloudflare. And yet Cloudflare states it will speed up sites because of caching but I'm not seeing that at all.
So, why is my site slower, showing lag? What am I doing wrong? Because the bots may be down but my site was speedier with 30k of them around and no Cloudflare.
I am aware of that, Suzanne. Thank you.
No, I meant dev mode at cloudflare, not XF.
There is a switch on cloudflare that lets you shut off caching there, and it does direct pass-thru then.
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Correct, caching should. But sometimes things dont work as planned.
Overall you are correct unless an ongoing issue occurs at cloudflare.
Also, if you make changes on your site, some things may be cached, and there is a setting there also to purge the cache. That could get rid of old cache files and force cloudflare to re-cache.
Overall you are correct unless an ongoing issue occurs at cloudflare.
Also, if you make changes on your site, some things may be cached, and there is a setting there also to purge the cache. That could get rid of old cache files and force cloudflare to re-cache.
Had this problem too, but its an easy fix. You are set too strict.
I have mine set to "flexible". There may be other ways, but this worked for me and hasn't caused issues.
@Levina
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