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- rson
Seems good and free. Just hooked it up so I will be the dummy pig.
http://mdtm.pl/okAJvF
- prophetone0
i was just reading about this on MT's site... what is the consensus with this service? has anyone experienced positive, noticeable results on MT?
seems like an interesting service that might help out graphic-heavy sites, especially if your hosted with MT and your primary audience might be in in the UK, Tasmania, etc...
- adumbratesly0
what happens if cloudflare crashes? simply reroute or... ?
- prophetone0
well that is exactly the kinda cloudflarin' questions i'd love to know the answers to... would like to hear good feedback and/or horror stories...
- utopian0
horrible logo identity
- on that alone, I will pass!utopian
- it's atrocious and is a giant warning sign, but proof is in the pudding usually...prophetone
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- moldero0
bump, any qbn reviews?
- Nope, but Amazon's http://aws.amazon.co… is well worth checking out - they have plenty of free capacitydetritus
- vaxorcist0
Cloudflare redirects your DNS to their setup, then essentially clones your website and uses their DNS to determine which cloned set of files is closeset to the web user's network....
This also helps prevent you getting hit by a DDOS attack...
I've done a website for a music festival, TONS of hits in a short time and cloudflare saved our butt, caching the site all over the place, but note that updating stuff takes a few minutes to reset the caches.
It's not completely magic, but it can really help...
in our experience cloudflare never crashed... but we certainly were overloaded until we used it..
- orrinward20
We use CloudFront (Amazon) and it's very good.
The only issues we've had is with caching and updating assets. For a whole we would just ensure any change to an image meant a change to the filename, but I think the more backend-inclined people in my team now solve it in a more elegant way.
- mantrakid0
When Yogscast played my game, it brought my server down within a half hour. I routed it through cloudflare and got it all up and running and it never went down ever again. Thank you cloudflare™™®®©©ç©¡
- monNom0
Used cloudflare to get around some DDOS stuff in the past. Worked well. You can use their free CDN service, point it to a free and slow/shitty webhost or wordpress.com and have a high performance CDN'd static site for $0. Pretty cool.