Re: Is anyone using Cloudflare?
I set up cloudflare and have to say that I am pretty impressed so far. It took a couple of extra days because I use an SSL, but set up was pretty darn simple.
In terms of speed, Page Speed has improved greatly. My pages used to range from a 64-70 and now I’m seeing 76-88.
YSlow is sporadic – sometimes a better grade, sometimes not. Supposedly, YSlow does not yet categorize Cloudflare as a CDN, but they are in the process of changing that in an upcoming release. So, YSlow may be incorrectly punishing you for not using a CDN when you actually are.
I can say my site feels faster.
As far as details, my Cloudfare dashboard reports that it has “saved” about 40% of bandwidth and about 75% of my total requests. And just in the last 6 hours, it has protected my site from 77 unique threats. (on low security settings).
The minify settings didn’t work for me, but other than that, I didn’t have any problems.
For what it is worth, I don’t use W3TC (because we have multiple databases) and Cloudflare only works on the main domain, not sub-domains. For us, that is fine because we use batcache to protect against traffic spikes. Our only real need was to speed up the main domain, which cloudflare seems to be doing nicely.
