Cloudfare experiences?

Hi,

subigo said:
You think this forum runs on shared hosting or something? Also... what's the point of using Cloudflare for "ddos protection" when 99% of the time you can find the real server's IP from an email header (especially on something like a forum)?
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I have no idea what kind of hosting setup this forum uses. But it is still quite possible that the hosting provider, shared or not, has their own security measures in places as well.

"Also... what's the point of using Cloudflare for "ddos protection" "
Because we can stop a lot of bad http requests. In addition to offering DDoS mitigation, site owners can also do some other things to limit the impacts of an attack (accepting connections from CloudFLare's IPs only by server rules, etc.).
 


Damon, although I'm sure everyone appreciates you being here, I'd like to point something out to you. Alex 1,558 US.

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This is probably one of those "go above and beyond" situations they talk about :)
 
Hi,

Alexa is notoriously not that accurate relative to actual traffic. Looking at the site owner's stats in their actual account, which I can't publish without their consent, do show pretty consistent actual traffic patterns relative to things like pageviews and visitors (actually trending up on CloudFlare).

That being said, I would like to help them get to the bottom of some of the issues that some visitors may be having trying to access the site. Have to make sure the basic issues are being addressed first & then take it from there.
 
damoncloudflare said:
Alexa is notoriously not that accurate relative to actual traffic. Looking at the site owner's stats in their actual account, which I can't publish without their consent, do show pretty consistent actual traffic patterns relative to things like pageviews and visitors (actually trending up on CloudFlare).

That being said, I would like to help them get to the bottom of some of the issues that some visitors may be having trying to access the site. Have to make sure the basic issues are being addressed first & then take it from there.
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I cant imagine how difficult it would be for the rest of us to use cloudfare, when a site with access to some of the best coders in the world has this much difficulty with the "basic issues" let alone the difficult issues
 
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I find it pretty unethical that instead of predominately advertising the LIVE VERSION (the part that should be the BIGGEST), CloudFlare chose to advertise its product in big bold letters instead. That just screams greed and disregard for your customer.

It's like a web designer who you paid including a huge "DESIGNED BY SEO SMART START" at the top of your website.

It's big, obnoxious and definitely hurts your brand.

Maybe you guys can peddle this as a hot investment to retirees that barely know how to turn on an iPad and have never operated a server.
 
Retry live version

(the part that should be the BIGGEST),

We actually just pushed a change last week that makes the retry option very, very easy to spot.

We also have plans to allow users to greater customize various error pages, but the honest answer is that will probably be restricted to paying customers (still haven't hashed out the details). I actually saw one of our engineers working in it today.
 
Hi,

dmnEPC said:
I cant imagine how difficult it would be for the rest of us to use cloudfare, when a site with access to some of the best coders in the world has this much difficulty with the "basic issues" let alone the difficult issues
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It actually isn't that difficult for most users. Issues do come up, like any other service, and we work hard to resolve them. I would actually say that most of our users are casual site owners & not advanced webserver admins.
 
After all the negative messages I'd like to jump in and say that page load speeds according to Google Analytics are down about 20-30% on my site. (as in my pages are loading 20-30% faster).

This is AFTER a year of constantly improving my sites manually anyway, so I was already down to the lowest load speeds possible.

I signed up for improved speeds not the DDOS protection so that part has been fulfilled, great stuff.

Not seeing many IPs blocked to be a problem, and most are from China and Russia so most likely they are correctly blocking them (although I've only just switched to "low" level protection from "almost off")

One strange thing that I've already messaged cloudflare about, Google analytics went from an average of 70k visitors a day to 91k 2 days ago and 100k today. But impressions are the same on my ad servers so something is not right. Analytics seems to be confused since I've installed cloudflare.

Also if results are consistent over time the $20 a month I'm paying is great value.
 
Does anyone use the apps provided by Cloudfare? Would you leave tracking (GWT, GA, Pingdom, Clicky) on your site to Cloudfare?

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damoncloudflare said:
We don't block all IE8 users. Are you getting the Browser Integrity Check issue highlighted earlier?
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That IE8 version I own is the browser to test my sites and web applications and the setup is common to a very large IE users base.
UI-UX testing should consider the real users base setups not what I think it's the best IE setup.
 
damoncloudflare said:
Browser Compatibility Check looks for signatures that are consistent with web spammers and the like. As there are some false positives because of plugins and extensions throwing it off, this feature can actually be turned off by the site owner. Another option is to whitelist IPs.
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My browser is clean, only flash plugin (99% users base).
My IPs are dynamic and the last one is quite white on:

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http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php
 
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dsm56 said:
After all the negative messages I'd like to jump in and say that page load speeds according to Google Analytics are down about 20-30% on my site. (as in my pages are loading 20-30% faster).

This is AFTER a year of constantly improving my sites manually anyway, so I was already down to the lowest load speeds possible.

I signed up for improved speeds not the DDOS protection so that part has been fulfilled, great stuff.

Not seeing many IPs blocked to be a problem, and most are from China and Russia so most likely they are correctly blocking them (although I've only just switched to "low" level protection from "almost off")

One strange thing that I've already messaged cloudflare about, Google analytics went from an average of 70k visitors a day to 91k 2 days ago and 100k today. But impressions are the same on my ad servers so something is not right. Analytics seems to be confused since I've installed cloudflare.

Also if results are consistent over time the $20 a month I'm paying is great value.
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We really wouldn't be impacting Google Analytics (JS call between your visitors and your site). Did you install Google Analytics via CloudFlare?
 
Hi,

Flash4Ever said:
That IE8 version I own is the browser to test my sites and web applications and the setup is common to a very large IE users base.
UI-UX testing should consider the real users base setups not what I think it's the best IE setup.
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Not that easy to test here (just giving the general reasons). You can contact us with the headers being returned & we can take a look at it. Link: Knowledge base | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company

An alternative would be to update the version to a more recent browser to see if that fixes the issue, or trying a different browser.
 
I can't really believe the Turkish government for security. Kinda baffles me.

But they should be good if a government use them, despite everything...
 
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