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well did you read what i wrote? i disable most of ...

2012-02-14T15:56:48.111-08:00

well did you read what i wrote? i disable most of the options, that's the only way i found to make cloudflare work good enough for me!

well regarding the "get a whole lot of hosting somewhere else for $20" thats my personal opinion, i dont think you get that much peace of mind between the free and paid, also the paid features are nice and they do give you more bandwidth, but for that price i can get a cloud hosting package or 1 nice vps or a couple of godd shared accounts or huge amounts of backupspace...

the point is not if its worth it, the point is if its worth it for me... ie i make sites, i need the hosting first, cloudflare only becomes useful when one of those sites becomes popular enough that it needs help... so yeah hosting is still more important to me than cloudflare and $20 can get you some nice hosting.

Just signed up for the paid account myself cause i...

2012-02-14T15:34:16.547-08:00

Just signed up for the paid account myself cause i'm guessing you get more bang if you pay, i disagree with the (get a whole lot of hosting somewwhere else for $20 though) you get a whole lot of hosting but you also get a whole lot of problems. I pay the $20 for peace of mind knowing i'm getting the better service.

However whenever i turn on page compression it turns my "text/javascript" into something like "text/jscript" so breaks my iframes so have to turn that off.

I have a few other issues but i'm sure i'll iron them out with support :)

Just to add i have all the features enabled except from html compression.

yeah i've seen lately a bit of 503 gateway err...

2012-01-26T01:41:11.438-08:00

yeah i've seen lately a bit of 503 gateway errors, i dont think its a facebook agent problem, when cloudflare was starting up those errors would sometimes randomly appear, so now i think its a issue of load and timeouts, if the timeout is too long and you server is having issues, cloudflare will put the obnoxious "site is offline page", but if there is glitch or timeout or load on the cloudflare proxy and normally a new page (or non cached page), it might show up the 503 error, refreshing normally fixes it... never saw a 503 error on a main page or something (cause its probably super cached already)...

Dude you hit every single point of problem I'v...

2012-01-25T21:56:14.299-08:00

Dude you hit every single point of problem I've been having with CF, and I've been using it for a week. I found myself turning off all the settings to make sure I don't run into any issue. The most annoying thing is the JS minification messed up my scripts so bad.

Only one problem: whenever the site is shared in Facebook, sometimes CF rejects Facebook user agent with a 503 error. Bad news. I'm not sure how to solve this yet. Any idea?

Either way, by combining CF with other optimization tools, I'm getting quite good performance http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120124_AR_2ZEP6/

Succinctly put.... sincere thanks

2011-12-20T14:57:15.743-08:00

Succinctly put.... sincere thanks

I found a great site today with all kinds of littl...

2011-12-18T14:06:30.620-08:00

I found a great site today with all kinds of little known facts about adsense rules.
Here is the link.
http://www.best-adsense-guide.com/rules_for_publishers.html

I solved my problem with them, by only using adsense account on article submission sites that require writers to have one. I don't operate adsense on my blogs or sites. I am not losing anything, since they pay zip to begin with. What kills me is I have article about children's toys and they put on ads about traveling to mars or combat boots.

about time! i understand problems arise, but this ...

2011-07-10T12:47:10.954-07:00

about time! i understand problems arise, but this is even more annoying than plain old downtime, with this we have random breaks all over the place, makes blogger pretty much useless.

We're working through this and hope to have th...

2011-07-10T12:37:27.382-07:00

We're working through this and hope to have the 503s resolved shortly. Our Status blog has the latest updates on the progress.

yeah cause adsense only sees a couple of ips from ...

2011-06-12T06:35:13.810-07:00

yeah cause adsense only sees a couple of ips from cloudflare and not the ips from the visitors, thats probably why adsense stopped working, not too sure how you can get around that... maybe try and activating cloudflare rocket loader, since it changes the javascript, it might also give the correct ip to google's adsense javascript... maybe ^_^

I tested cloudflare on a site that I have that get...

2011-06-12T05:25:02.822-07:00

I tested cloudflare on a site that I have that gets steady adsense profits each day, Once I activated cloudflare the profits just stopped.

Reall?, im not protecting cloudflare, but unless y...

2011-06-03T05:49:00.093-07:00

Reall?, im not protecting cloudflare, but unless you activate their minify+rocketlauncher thingys (that optimize javascript), then they dont touch the javascript at all and it would work just fine, also adsense is external javascript, not too sure if they even cache that... so problems with adsense seem a bit... oh wait, you might have a reason, cloudflare might hide the ips of your users to adsense, and adsense might freak out with that... yeah i see... adsense might be a problem with cloudflare hummm

ps: yes i dont edit anything i write... hehehe, thanks for the comment

Adsense and CloudFlare dont work well together, an...

2011-06-03T03:21:23.087-07:00

Adsense and CloudFlare dont work well together, and they have a few issues other then just that to workout.

well yeah the automatic music and tons of widgets ...

2011-05-27T12:12:45.992-07:00

well yeah the automatic music and tons of widgets on myspace was over the top, also the complete randomness of it all, facebook won just by making it all the same for everyone...

in facebook i have like 200 apps blocked and i only accept people i know in real life that i enjoy, so that kinda cuts a ton of spam ^_^

twitter is micro-spam, it has some uses, but 96% of the people there are completely irrelevant and i count myself as one...

HAH! I'm turning on my AT Field! Also (and mo...

2011-05-27T11:56:26.836-07:00

HAH! I'm turning on my AT Field!

Also (and more on-topic), I have to say that I left Myspace once every freaking page started shouting stinking music and really bad taste of decoration.

With the increasing FB apps that people use asking you "Whats your favorite sex position? Mine is cool! Wanna know? Register to view and answer!" it wont be long before I stroll away to greener pastures.

Now Twitter... let's see how it behaves...

as a sidenote, i've tried it later on, and it ...

2011-05-27T10:06:19.358-07:00

as a sidenote, i've tried it later on, and it still fucking up my sites, maybe i just cant config it properly or maybe it sucks ^~^

deoki get out of my interwebs...

2011-05-27T10:02:03.405-07:00

deoki get out of my interwebs...

GIVE ME A FACECHAN!!! FRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIII...

2011-05-27T09:56:24.309-07:00

GIVE ME A FACECHAN!!!
FRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
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/END OF TROLLING/

hai hai, i tried and not comment on the more wild ...

2011-04-04T02:29:06.331-07:00

hai hai, i tried and not comment on the more wild aspects of godaddy, since well, their gimmicks (weird ads, pushing questionable "products") apparently attract customers so its not me to say if thats good or not, but regarding their service, yeah i would stay away from godaddy mostly cause overall they aren't a ethical company (anyone can check online the thousands of articles of all the shady stuff godaddy did and does til today), they are a purely profit driven company, their customers are a afterthought ^-^'

I have been with GoDaddy for about 10 years. I am ...

2011-04-01T04:53:35.183-07:00

I have been with GoDaddy for about 10 years. I am now moving, with their strong suggestive selling, automatic renewals (even if you turn it off), their sexist advertising, their CEO's religious touting and now he is promoting the fact that he killed an elephant in Africa. I have had enough. I am moving my 60+ domains away. People should be warned about GoDaddy.

thanks, and yes it is becoming more and more usual...

2011-03-09T11:12:38.216-08:00

thanks, and yes it is becoming more and more usual especially if you consider specialized hosting (vps but with services like it was shared hosting) ^_^

its a great review.VPS Hosting is one of the faste...

2011-03-09T01:30:08.829-08:00

its a great review.VPS Hosting is one of the fastest growing hosting niches.And Windows VPS Hosting plans have significantly increased.

hai hai ^_^ glad it was helpful, its was good for ...

2011-02-24T10:23:33.855-08:00

hai hai ^_^ glad it was helpful, its was good for me too heheheh

It helped a lot. Thanks

2011-02-24T08:19:38.284-08:00

It helped a lot.
Thanks

Probably its the same damon that posted here ^_^&#...

2011-01-05T17:42:43.599-08:00

Probably its the same damon that posted here ^_^' hehehe

Anyways i can give you a bit more insight, i think hostgator is a "cloudflare partner host" only for hostgator shared hosting, not vps hosting, in vps its you who controls the settings, not hostgator, thats probably why it wasnt so smooth.

Also you should pay extra attention to your primary domain (the domain you are using for your hostname and main dns), cause using that with cloudflare might mess things up for other domains or for cpanel, you really don't want to do that.

And yes in the site that i had wordpress the same happen to me, maybe not that flagrant but some stuff stopped working at random times (probably cause wordpress admin needed something and cloudflare cache was giving something else... hence your 404 errors and in my case the image upload flash not loading or post automatic saves hanging).

The load times, is like i said, if you already have a good optimized site, by doing it right or just using mod_pagespeed on apache or w3 total cache on wordpress, much of the performance enhancements of cloudflare become mute.

Regarding the threat detection/blocking, well not too sure about that as well, one of the sites i tried is heavily abused by bots and spammers and cloudflare system didn't seem to make any effect (on the 3 weeks it was on), but well it could be like akismet and get better with time, also blocking is easy, there are 20 ways of doing it, now the detection/prevention that's the hard part, in case of cloudflare they use Project Honey Pot (were ppl submit bad ips and hostnames) and probably from submissions inside cloudflare to know what to block.

and yeah like i said above, cloudflare in my opinion is still in heavy beta and shouldn't be used in production sites, also i think 90% of cloudflare reviews online at this time haven't used the system long or hard enough to find the many flaws it still has.

I've been trying out cloudflare on a few diffe...

2011-01-05T17:12:55.689-08:00

I've been trying out cloudflare on a few different sites. I definitely like the threat detection aspect of the service. I've only seen as much as about 1 second of increased load time at best on the sites I've run it on.

Some domains were non-starters right from go. Others seemed to create problems after the fact. I searched the forums and help sections for answers but came up short. (I felt like there might be answers there but could not find them)

I contacted support (and have even exchanged and email or two with someone named Damon) but there is no ticketing process so I can't follow up on outstanding issues or derivations as we move past one troubleshooting problem to a new one that may or may not be related.

All of my sites are WordPress sites, all run on hostgator which is supposed to be friendly to cloudflare (somehow). All my sites are on my own vps at hostgator. Right from go, my primary domain on that server, the domain that powers the server and the DNS names, was an immediate fail. That didn't work at all. I lost access to whm and cpanel on all domains.

I removed the primary domain from cloudflare and got access to whm back again. cpanel access has to go through direct.domainname.com/cpanel instead of domainname.com/cpanel which if everything else worked would be annoying the first time and ok after that.

But the big problem, I've found is that once I'm logged into wordpress itself, I'm getting 404 errors inside the wp-admin sometimes I can't login at all, other times, I login, but can't execute/write anything. I get a 404 error with the link followed by (port 80)

I'm running out of time to keep messing with this, but noticed in hostgator support the following article that basically says you cannot use dns for anything other than hostgator servers (that would make it seem that hostgator might not be so friendly for cloudflare after all unless hostgator's article is dated maybe)

http://support.hostgator.com/articles/cpanel/proxy-access-for-cpanel-whm-and-webmail-needed-to-bypass-firewalls

At the end of the day, I'm left wondering if there is some other service that can do threat detection / blocking alone. I hadn't found that elsewhere yet. Everything else I can do myself ala carte. the one stop shop was nice, but it just isn't working. :(