My host recommended this to improve site security & performance. I was just wondering if anyone here uses it and can testify as to whether it's worth it or not.
They are great... but no need unless you have a very high traffic website (tens to hundreds of thousands of unique visitors per day). Otherwise... you are talking just a few milliseconds of time saved for your visitors.
Securitywise CF does nothing to help with that unless you are getting a massive DDOS attack.
We got hacked a few months back and Cloudflare definitely helps to alleviate that. Immediately after we installed it we saw the Cloudflare notice coming up quite a bit as it indexed the site and kept pulling it down to fight the hacks. Over time it has stabilized nicely. Having been hacked once (which sucked royally) I would highly recommend it as a safeguard.
Great to have as a layer of security. Also, if you face the Digg/Reddit effect and your site goes viral... the caching should help keep you alive. For a free service, not a bad insurance policy.
mikejl29 wrote:
Great to have as a layer of security. Also, if you face the Digg/Reddit effect and your site goes viral... the caching should help keep you alive. For a free service, not a bad insurance policy.
Thank you all for the input. I just tried going through and signing up through my host, BUT:
SSL was detected for your site. CloudFlare Free does not support SSL.
Any traffic over https:// to a CloudFlare-powered subdomain will see an error message. SSL is only supported in the Pro or Business plan.
Are you guys paying for this? I don't really understand what SSL is or what it will do. But I don't want to get any error messages when people are browsing... (obviously).
I had heard of this service but had not tried it. I asked my ISP and they could not recommend any out of house products but said they heard good things and have not had issues with any site using it. Good enough for me.
I also got the SSL warning. I do not use a secured server. I don't pay for SSL so it is a non issue.
That lock you see on bank web sites, paypal etc is SSL. My email is not on a private server so it is not SSL secured.
Went ahead with the free option on a new site I am building and it works fine. Reason I am building a new site is my old one and email was hacked and am still working out issues. Want all the protection I can get this time.
