lalalatrululu
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http://xenforo.com/community/threads/remote_addr.13180/
please give some advice
please give some advice
What is Cloudflare ? How does it help webmasters ?
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damoncloudflare
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Just a quick note that CloudFlare has added some new IP addresses recently. As many of you may have firewall rules or other in place restricting access to IPs, please make sure that the CloudFlare IP addresses are whitelisted.
damoncloudflare
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Hi,
I also wanted to highlight that CloudFlare has made some major changes to CloudFlare and SSL in the past week. If you guys see any issues with SSL, please let us know.
I also wanted to highlight that CloudFlare has made some major changes to CloudFlare and SSL in the past week. If you guys see any issues with SSL, please let us know.
damoncloudflare
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Since a few of you asked about a UK datacenter, I did want to let you know CloudFlare's UK datacenter (datacentre) is now online.
Deepmartini
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So this will work with a forum like Xenforo? Does it cache restricted content accessible to registered members only or just the public content?
damoncloudflare
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damoncloudflare
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Just a quick update that CloudFlare will be broadcasting over new CloudFlare IP ranges and you should make sure your server/host has whitelisted these IP addresses.
Rigel Kentaurus
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I just started reading this. It is really interesting.
How would Cloudfare know whether to send a cached or new version of the page? Say I open the forum home page, it does not make a lot of sense to me for that request to go all the way to my servers, but rather, a cached version could be served as fine. If I have 500 users hitting the home page, would this translate in 500 hits to Cloudfare but just 1 for me?
How would Cloudfare know whether to send a cached or new version of the page? Say I open the forum home page, it does not make a lot of sense to me for that request to go all the way to my servers, but rather, a cached version could be served as fine. If I have 500 users hitting the home page, would this translate in 500 hits to Cloudfare but just 1 for me?
damoncloudflare
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Hi Rigel,
We don't impact dynamic content at all, so updates would still occur as they do now (CloudFlare caches static content). Visitors would actually be routed to the nearest CloudFlare datacenter to deliver the content. You would still be getting hits, but we would actually be saving a lot of those requests.
We don't impact dynamic content at all, so updates would still occur as they do now (CloudFlare caches static content). Visitors would actually be routed to the nearest CloudFlare datacenter to deliver the content. You would still be getting hits, but we would actually be saving a lot of those requests.
Rigel Kentaurus
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So, if I understand correctly, say I get 500 requests .... and those span to 2000 because of JS and CSS
My server would still get the 500 requests, for all the dynamic content
Cloudfare would server the JS and CSS, and I would be saving in the other 1500 requests
If I were to set an "expires" header on my PHP content, would cloudfare honor that and cache my dynamic content for say, 5 minutes?
damoncloudflare
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"If I were to set an "expires" header on my PHP content, would cloudfare honor that and cache my dynamic content for say, 5 minutes?"
Yes, we should honor any expire headers you have set. We don't cache PHP content or other dynamic content at this time (may be a possibility down the road) . CloudFlare only caches static content file extensions.
"My server would still get the 500 requests, for all the dynamic content
Cloudfare would server the JS and CSS, and I would be saving in the other 1500 requests"
Hard to address specifically. On average, however, the average site owner sees about a 60% reduction in requests (depends on site, site content, etc.).
Yes, we should honor any expire headers you have set. We don't cache PHP content or other dynamic content at this time (may be a possibility down the road) . CloudFlare only caches static content file extensions.
"My server would still get the 500 requests, for all the dynamic content
Cloudfare would server the JS and CSS, and I would be saving in the other 1500 requests"
Hard to address specifically. On average, however, the average site owner sees about a 60% reduction in requests (depends on site, site content, etc.).
damoncloudflare
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Quick note to XenForo members:
I created a quick guide to troubleshooting the most common CloudFlare problems. Hoping that this helps minimize some confusion around issues that can arise from time to time.
I created a quick guide to troubleshooting the most common CloudFlare problems. Hoping that this helps minimize some confusion around issues that can arise from time to time.
damoncloudflare
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Some of you had reported issues with the admin section of your site & certain features breaking things like an editor. The good news is that we have a beta feature you can test to exclude CloudFlare from touching certain urls & you can access the beta feature by going to: https://www.cloudflare.com/page-rules?z=yourdomaincom (put your site in where it states yourdomain.com).
Please report any bugs or issues by contacting CloudFlare.
Please report any bugs or issues by contacting CloudFlare.
mrGTB
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Same here, I started using CloudFlare last week only via my cPanel. Before using it I was getting tired of seeing many timed-out pages and slow loading of pages for hours on end regularly each day. The forum has been running a 100 times better since using CloudFlare. Spam registrations which was picking up pace has now stopped, I'm also seeing lots of site threats being blocked by CloudFlare in the settings page.
A question though? There are many options you can set with cloudflare. Currently I'm using BASIC cache, not simplifies or Aggressive. I've also activated the 3 icons for CSS, Minify, HTML e.t.c. Do you you have any tips for best setting to use with XenForo
damoncloudflare
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Did you have anything blocking requests from CloudFlare ips at the host or server level? If your site is getting offline messages, the only causes are (a) server down, or (b) something blocking requests from our ips.
damoncloudflare
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I really don't have any specific tips for settings for XenForo specifically. You could try Rocket Loader as well, which helps load your JavaScript faster, but I do need to give the caveat that it might break some JavaScript in Automatic Mode. If you see a script breaking with Rocket Loader turned on, you can put a script tag so we ignore that particular script.
You would want to use aggressive caching if you want items with a query string cached.
I would also strongly recommend making sure that you're getting original visitor IP returned to your logs.
Deepmartini
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Hearing this makes me VERY concerned to even attempt to use CloudFlare. Why risk it? How about just upgrading your own host account? I would like to understand more of the pros and cons to have the full picture.
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