Cloudfare experiences?

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dsm56

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Found out about cloudfare for the first time today and ordered a pro account straight away to test it out.

In short, they are a CDN + DDOS protection service, with some additional goodies like file compression, email address protection etc.

Setup is fucking amazingly simple, and its so cheap for what it is.

Does anyone have any experience with them? I have no idea how they could possibly be profitable. Seems TOO good a deal.

I'll have some results in a few days as to how effective it is.
 


They work so great I get to see there logo at least a few times a week just by visiting WF
 
Back in early 2010 on of my health sites was ddos'd to the point an old VPS provider dropped me because of it (Fuck you SliceHost). Shortly after I ended up putting it on cloudflare + a quick migration to a HostGator baby account, problem solved like magic. They've been good in my experience in that sense.
 
"Site-Not-available page"

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would comment on this. This is only going to be caused by (a) the server actually having issues, or (b) something blocking requests from our IPs at the host or server level (site owners should make sure our IPs are whitelisted). The CloudFlare IPs can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips
 
damoncloudflare said:
"Site-Not-available page"

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would comment on this. This is only going to be caused by (a) the server actually having issues, or (b) something blocking requests from our IPs at the host or server level (site owners should make sure our IPs are whitelisted). The CloudFlare IPs can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips
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Whose server? Cloudflare's or ours?
 
MadMaxNine said:
Back in early 2010 on of my health sites was ddos'd to the point an old VPS provider dropped me because of it (Fuck you SliceHost). Shortly after I ended up putting it on cloudflare + a quick migration to a HostGator baby account, problem solved like magic. They've been good in my experience in that sense.
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Not sure if relevant, but Slicehost is now Rackspace Cloud VPS. And all their VPSes are on the cloud.

Work like a charm for a few of my clients.

Have a client for whom I built 53 wordpress based blogs. 17 of them are well established with 2 of them crossing a million hits per month.

All of these are on a Slicehost VPS and they work like magic. Have been updating the websites for almost 6 months now.

Just sayin'
 
We have whitelisted those IP's on our firewall.

damoncloudflare said:
"Site-Not-available page"

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would comment on this. This is only going to be caused by (a) the server actually having issues, or (b) something blocking requests from our IPs at the host or server level (site owners should make sure our IPs are whitelisted). The CloudFlare IPs can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips
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BlogHue said:
Not sure if relevant, but Slicehost is now Rackspace Cloud VPS. And all their VPSes are on the cloud.

Work like a charm for a few of my clients.

Have a client for whom I built 53 wordpress based blogs. 17 of them are well established with 2 of them crossing a million hits per month.

All of these are on a Slicehost VPS and they work like magic. Have been updating the websites for almost 6 months now.

Just sayin'
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There's a big difference between getting a couple million hits a month and getting a full on DDoS attack. I'm not saying a couple million hits a month is low volume traffic (herp derp, if I don't say this someone will think I am), but a real DDoS attack will make that look like 10 hits a day. I've personally seen multi-gig a sec attacks and it hurts.
 
crackp0t said:
There's a big difference between getting a couple million hits a month and getting a full on DDoS attack. I'm not saying a couple million hits a month is low volume traffic (herp derp, if I don't say this someone will think I am), but a real DDoS attack will make that look like 10 hits a day. I've personally seen multi-gig a sec attacks and it hurts.
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Yes, but don't you think a Full Blown DDOS attack would be an isolated incident as opposed to a website that receives a couple million hits on a redundant basis?

Please don't get me wrong, I am not advocating shit here. But would you (or anyone else) please elaborate the difference between using a third party Cloud system (such as CloudFlare) versus hosting on a VPS that itself is claimed to be on the Cloud.

Thanks in Advance.
 
I will go 3 days without seeing Cloudflare offline on WF, then I will see it for 10 minutes straight or 30 or 50 concurrent pageloads.

Based on what I have seen on WF, unless it is total misconfiguration, it really sucks and I would never use it in a production environment.

TBH, not quite sure why WF uses it at all.
 
damoncloudflare said:
"Site-Not-available page"

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would comment on this. This is only going to be caused by (a) the server actually having issues, or (b) something blocking requests from our IPs at the host or server level (site owners should make sure our IPs are whitelisted). The CloudFlare IPs can be found here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips
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Why does cloudflare block all IE8 users?
Do you think how many users a money site can lose?
Do you know how many users in the world use only Microsoft browser?
What issues IE8 can give to a site, except all the fancy UI experience users can miss about HTML5/CSS3?
 
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