Does Using Cloudflare Work?

Faceless Men

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Nov 18, 2016

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #1

Hello, I am planning to upload some static websites to my server. I wonder if using cloudflare would help reducing server load.

I hear lots of people saying stay away from cloudflare but at the same time many sites use cloudflare. Sometimes I see cloudflare blocking access to websites. I fear if cloudflare does it to my site then I would lose money as I am running paid ads to my landing pages.

Please share your experience with cloudflare

 

Android Tipster

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Sep 7, 2015

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #2

Cloudflare does help if you know what you're doing.
Only way to find out is to compare before and after

 

rajkala

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Apr 11, 2018

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #3

Cloudflare works great as reverse proxy, If you are planning to send a load of traffic - Page caching works super great.

 

SpoonFeeder

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Mar 19, 2017

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #4

The Keyword here is "static websites"

Static websites doesn't consume a lot of server resources like Wordpress or any other CMS so you'll definitely benefit from using Cloudflare as it'll cache static content like js/css scripts and media files like jpg/png's.

You can even host your "static website" for free in Github pages or paid but cheaper option Amazon S3.

I use cloudflare on ALL my websites.

 

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MSRP

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #5

Cloudflare is rocks! I was satisfied using free service and now I am on their Enterprise board.

 

milk_and_cake

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #6

CF does help your sites loading time and general speed in 2 major ways:
1.They have caching;
2.Example: If your site is hosted somewhere in US based servers and someone from Ukraine loads your site, it is logical they will need more time to load than person in US. What CloudFlare has are servers all over the world so when person request your site it will load from geographically closest location to his thus increasing sites loading time.

I hope I helped a bit.

 

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auiu

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Aug 17, 2018

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• Sep 28, 2018

• #7

They put a copy of your website in all their servers around the globe. So the page load from the server that is near from the location of the visitor.