Its totally awesome!.. Not my most technical response to a query around here but those folks rock. Nigel
CloudFlare accelerates and protects any website online. It will automatically optimize the delivery of your web site/pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times.
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ive had issues with cloud flare to where visitors were being blocked for no reason and other people never had problem. its a hit and miss
I assume you mean visitors are getting hit with a challenge page? If so, the challenges actually do happen for a reason (the ip the visitor is coming from has shown bad activity online recently). You can, however, do a number of things if you want fewer visitors to see a challenge: 1. Change your security level settings in your CloudFlare settings to a lower level (settings->CloudFlare settings->Basic Security Level->change to lower level). 2. Whitelist the IP(s) the visitor is coming from in your threat control panel. This will override any challenge behavior. Note: Your visitors can still enter your site by passing the captcha ...so it isn't a full block.
its ok. my host is partnered with them. ive seen it work good with some of my sites but not so much with others
"ive seen it work good with some of my sites but not so much with others" How so? Generally speaking, most sites get about a 50-60% improvement in performance. Issues can happen, of course, but they generally have a root cause.
Instead of your traffic going straight from your DNS server to your web server, Cloudflare sits in between and handles requests before your web server does - then calls big parts of your website e.g JS scripts and flash applets straight from your web server. It also can cache your scripts if you have premium It helps a lot with wordpress blogs.