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[Alex from Bougex.com]

Hi there ! 

Anybody is using www.cloudflare.com to manage DNS for it's Ning network ??? 

Does it changes anything ? 
Does it helps ? 
Does it have an impact ? 

I assume it has no impact on the .com we use because our .com is only an alias to our blahblah.ning.com ! True ?

Here is the overview of cloudflare : https://www.cloudflare.com/overview

[Arnold Burian]

That's kind of the point of Cloudflare. You can intercept calls to your site and add features without adding any additional load to Ning:

https://www.cloudflare.com/apps

[Uwe Twelker]

Hi Arnold

Thank you for the clarification, if that's the added content it is a completely different story than I feared. I will definitely check this out.

[soaringeagle]

cloudfare blocked hundreds of  people a day  as suspicios spammers

since adding the donation paywall i get 1 spammer every 3 months on average

having hundreds of legit people blocked a day was not helpful in any way

the only thing that would make cloudfare worthwhile was if the delayed script execution (rocketload) worked..which it dont

when activated all scripts even ads stop working entirely

i was even using the paid not free service and found cloudfare to be nothing but hassles

theres a free cdn i use for my wordpress blog which id recomend over cloudfare

ning has its own cdn wich works just fine

[Patrick Chappelle]

What you've said here is disconcerting, to say the very least. I don't recall how I set up my CF account, do I simply delete my account, or do I need to do something back at GoDaddy? If what you say is true (and I have no reason to doubt any of it), I need to get rid of CloudFlare.

[soaringeagle]

Well try and see if you like it, if you don't like it you can't just delete your account you have to set back the DNS records all back and sometimes that screws up

[soaringeagle]

Does it changes anything ? it changes how pages are loaded, instead of content and files loading direcetly from your site they are cached on cloudfare according to the dns you set this can be www so it caches html css javascripts and loads them from the closest server to the user..suposedly speeding up site loads it also blocks suspicios ips and makes them fill a captchya this blocks legit trafic as well and annoys people

it changes your dns records so all yoiur sites dns points to cloudfare but only certain dns records are cached and served by the cloudfare servers
Does it helps ? define help?  help speed up loads? not noticably at all and having to fill out a captchya several times  b4 getting it right slows the user experience for hundredds a day

it may have a slight performance enhancement for users in africa and other places on the other side of the world since content is served from a closer server
Does it have an impact ? it is annoying it blocked way too much traffic setup and removal was a pain 9n the ass my site was down for 3 days after removal because resetting the dns did not go smouthly

I assume it has no impact on the .com we use because our .com is only an alias to our blahblah.ning.com ! True ?

it does effect .com because .com is a mapped domain mapped to yoursite.ning.com which when the cloudfares used yoursite getds mapped to cloudfare  cloudfare account gets mapped to yoursite.ning

cloudfare then caches yoursite.ning on cloudfare and serves it from there

[Uwe Twelker]

I would love to hear a statement from cloudflare.com …

[Patrick Chappelle]

You can see my earlier reply with a link to what they have to say about these issues, Uwe.

[Thomas Hoey]

I have a site(s) on MT Grid and it is enabled. Saves loads of bandwidth and it may just be coincidence but my visitors are up dramatically. Think it has something to do with speed but have not had time to do comparisons. I will eventually. But in in case, through MT Grid, it seems tow work well.

[Arnold Burian]

Yeah, I am a big fan of Cloudflare. I keep seeing all these feature requests posted in these forums (making Punchtab faster, collect real analytics, stop spammers, block IP ranges from Nigeria) and all I can think is: Cloudflare does all that.

<shrugs>