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Few things you should know before your enabling cloudflare for your site [Open Discussion] | Forum

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suresh kumar
suresh kumar Feb 13 '13
This is my review on using the cloudflare for"FREE" if you are using premium subscription you can make a reply below with full details.


PROS:


Threat control:

There is a three layer threat control available in cloudflare

1. Low -automated bots will be stopped automatically

2.Medium- Bots and the spammers which are recgonised all over the internet cant access your site

3.High -all bots and crawlers will be stopped even google,msn,yahoo

or you can have a custom setting

Performance

This also have three levels

apart from the three levels you can minigy your sites css html and java scripts

1.CDN only

This has simplified caching (reduced load for your server)
cache stays on for 4 hours on your users computer
Rocket LoaderBeta Automatically asynchronously load all JavaScript resources.
2.CDN + basic

caching aggressive ,faster loading of site, and has few other perks


3.CDN+Full

has all the things of the above too and you get an zero downtime and reduced page load timings

CONS:

The major cons are two

1. server load:

your server load will be increased based on the level of the performance you use

2.adsense or any other ads

your ads will disappear from your site if you choose to high threat level
ofcourse you can add exceptions to your settings.




The Forum post is edited by Alia Apr 5 '13
shush
shush Feb 14 '13
Thanks for the run down, it's mostly over my head.


A question...

Does cloud flare make yr site more easy for devices like Android Nexus 7, iPad, Android phone, windows phone?

suresh kumar
suresh kumar Feb 14 '13
nope it can make auto redirection to what ever site u need when the user agent is mobile nothing more
David A
David A Apr 4 '13
Have you noticed if it increases your speed?  It seems as though oxwall is very slow

suresh kumar
suresh kumar Apr 5 '13
Yes the sitw was good and it increased the speed but one main problem was that it took too much cpu usage.. my cpu before cloudflare was around 7-8% after that it hiked to 40-50%
David A
David A Apr 6 '13
interesting