How To Serve Javascript and Static Images from Cloudflare CDN

[Mouth]

We're going to be trying CloudFlare out soon - we're relatively happy to switch the name servers across - is there any reason not to?

I've used CloudFlare for DNS only (not caching or other features) for quite some time and it's been terrific. Was previously using a $20 per mth service, and have seen no change after swapping to CloudFlare - except the saving in $20 per month

 

[Akuta]

Why on earth would you use CloudFlare over S3+CloudFront as a CDN?

 

[tafreehm]

Why on earth would you use CloudFlare over S3+CloudFront as a CDN?

because, its free I guess...

 

[Akuta]

because, its free I guess...

My mistake, I misunderstood what CloudFlare is. The paid packages are actually insanely amazing if it works well. Super happy I found out about this service.

 

[Akuta]

My mistake, I misunderstood what CloudFlare is. The paid packages are actually insanely amazing if it works well. Super happy I found out about this service.

As a follow up to everyone who uses CloudFlare, the Google train is coming and it's coming fast: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service Might even be better already.

If you guys get into beta please PM me. I'll do the same for those who liked/posted below about it.

 

[Chris D]

As a follow up to everyone who uses CloudFlare, the Google train is coming and it's coming fast: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service Might even be better already.

I have to try that...

I will post results if I get accepted into the beta.

 

[DRE]

When I created this resource I was on shared hosting. I am now on a semi-dedicated server and have to do this stuff allll over again. I am so glad I made this resource because I forgot how to do this stuff.

And what's even cooler is this new addon by Dinh Thanh http://xenforo.com/community/resources/tinhte-image-attachment-optimization-cdn-support.909/

but I gotta figure this out as well http://xenforo.com/community/threads/defining-a-cache-whats-the-point.35753/

 

[DRE]

https://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/XenForo

 

[DRE]

8thos updated How To Serve Javascript and Static Images from Cloudflare CDN with a new update entry:

Had CNAME URL Wrong. Corrected by Dinh Thanh

More info here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/tinhte-image-attachment-optimization.34400/page-7#post-407098

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[MichaelDance]

hi...i dont know create subdomain in DirectAdmin

Direct Admin is via:

Remember guys, people can't always use cPanel for cloudflare (They might not be a cloudflare partner), check this for your webhost: http://www.cloudflare.com/hosting-partners

https://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/XenForo

Mate can I use this tutorial in my Knowledge base please?

 

[DRE]

Sure. Go ahead.

 

[MichaelDance]

Sure. Go ahead.

Thank you

 

[SoManyPosts]

Why would I need to set up the DNS all in cPanel, when I can just use CloudFlare for my DNS? I've done this for months now, and it's worked fine. I don't know about compressing everything though, I think minification is automatic, right? Or did you do that just to move something?

 

[SoManyPosts]

I think you should use CloudFlare for your DNS if you don't have cPanel on board. I don't have cPanel, don't seem to need it at the time. I could borrow one from a free web hosting, but still I can't use everything since it's not on the server.

 

[Designbox]

Thank you very much, very usefull documentation.
I followed the tutorial to the letter, unfortunately when I now try to upload a document, the uploader returns me an error:

XenForo_Exception: Failed to write the attachment thumbnail file. - library/XenForo/DataWriter/AttachmentData.php:161

Did I miss something?