An IT professional friend is recommending that I use CloudFlare CDN for my Fwy Pro 7 website. If any of you are using CloudFlare, are you happy with it? Any warnings/“watch outs”?
Their free plan has a “100mb Client maximum upload size.” I’m lost here. How do I discover the upload size of my Fwy website?
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The max file upload size refers to the uploading of a single file to your server by a visitor. It has nothing to do with FTP or moving site files back-n-forth.
Your server will also impose file upload size limits which are typically far less than 100MB. These can be overridden.
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Thanks, Todd.
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To answer your other question yes, I’ve been using CF (Free) for a couple years and am very happy with the features/tools.
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I’ve been using Cloudflare both free and pro for a couple of years now with various domains and generally feel it’s very positive. It does introduce an extra layer of points to check but on the other hand your site will be more secure and generally faster.
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One bit of advice I should add on using CloudFlare. From personal experience I’ve achieved the best results in terms of stability when my server has a basic setup without lots of tweaks for performance. This is because CloudFlare itself makes lots of changes and occasionally it can case conflicts if both your server and CloudFlare are trying to do the same thing by different means.
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I am pretty low-tech. I tried CloudFlare for a few days and experienced some issues with my host that were not occurring before I activated CloudFlare. So I’ve deleted my CloudFlare account. I have some alternative ways with my hosting to speed up page loads, and I’m fine with that.
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I am pretty low-tech. I tried CloudFlare for a few days and experienced some issues with my host that were not occurring before I activated CloudFlare. So I’ve deleted my CloudFlare account. I have some alternative ways with my hosting to speed up page loads, and I’m fine with that.
While I’m not using CloudFlare myself, I have looked at their service very closely. I think you’d be mistaken to think you can create anything even remotely comparable on your own.
CloudFlare does two kinds of things that speed up performance:
when a visitor enters www.yoursite.com http://www.yoursite.com/, CloudFlare doesn’t always answer the same IP address, rather they route the request to the geographically nearest datacenter. This means that if you have visitors say in the US, in the UK and in Australia, they all connect to a local server
the local datacenter caches the page and assets from your site, with an architecture optimized for speed. Not all web servers are created equal, for example an Apache loaded with all the plugins can be significantly slower than a lean Apache, and an nginx will be even faster. There are several other factors that can contribute to page download speed, pretty sure CF ticks all the boxes.
For low traffic sites that might be it. For high traffic sites CF will be more scalable than a shared hosting or single server somewhere. The also have other features like image re-compression and coalescing all scripts into one, I’m not a fan of those but they might work for someone.
Truth to be told, many content delivery networks will do what CF does (like Amazon’s CloudFront or Rackspace’s thing), though CF is free forever in its basic tier and damn simple to setup.
A modern high performance website revolves around a few things, and a CDN is a central element:
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Duncan
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Thanks, Duncan. I’m working through a few other issues on my website. When done, I may make another run at CloudFlare and just let it run at the basic level. I appreciate your reply. Helpful.
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