Cloudflare experience?

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  • vaxorcist

    I'm working on a wordpress site that's likely to get a large spike in traffic at a predictable time. I've researched CloudFlare, CloudFront and various other similar ways to deal with the volume. Yes, we're caching,etc, but we're getting very prepared as site crashed last year before I was part of this project.

    All of these "Cloud-x" methods are pretty similar in concept to using Amazon S3 or Akamai to deal with traffic spikes, but newer and more integrated into WP,etc.

    Does anyone here have personal experience beyond what I'd google myself with Cloudflare and/or Cloudfront and/or anything very similar using WP with anticipated large spike in traffic?

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  • spot130

    I think beyond the replication model like S3, which is probably your best approach for a content based site vs. a transaction site, you would looking at a load balancer like F5 or Citrix Netscaler but it would be expensive and require dedicated hardware.

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    • spot130

      How customized is your WP site? You could potentially use WP VIP service: http://vip.wordpress.com/

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        $3,750 per month        albums
      • might be cheaper than load balancers - depends what kind of 'spike' we're talking about :)spot13
      • Just more expensive than I was ready to read, probably worth it but a strange service to me ;)albums
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