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i actually saw decreased performance. it seems if your server is already fast (ivy bridge w/ ssd, 10gbps network), it slows it down and their service becomes th

i actually saw decreased performance. it seems if your server is already fast (ivy bridge w/ ssd, 10gbps network), it slows it down and their service becomes the bottleneck.

moe 14y ago
Unless your servers are really slow their service will always be the bottleneck. I'll keep repeating this every time the Cloudflare spam comes up on HN (which happens with disturbing frequency): Do your homework, measure them. Cloudflare slows your site down instead of speeding it up. There is no free lunch.
- modoc 14y ago
  We don't have slow servers. We've measured before and afters on multiple clients and have seen quick page render times on the client end after rolling CloudFlare in. Caching static assets on a CDN (like CloudFlare) speeds up overall page load time. The minification features around HTML, CSS, JS, also improve transfer times. If you have optimized html, don't expect html serving to be faster (as you have more hops - unless you use railgun maybe). Homework done, measurements taken. Happy with the results.
  - druiid 14y ago
    Pretty much the same here... and we have the fabled e-commerce style pages (because we do e-commerce). The only thing that we saw a slowdown for was when we connect to pages from our office, when our servers are in town.. but that's not the fault of Cloudflare, but simply that they don't have servers in the same city as us!