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Post by MichaelApproved »

phonon wrote: post #103
MichaelApproved wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind posting the types of problems you've had? I use CF for many critical websites I manage and haven't noticed any problems.

I'm in financial services...as part of our checkout process, the customer downloads a 1 MB pdf with sensitive and unique data to them. In testing ( a test site with cloudflare set up), everything was fine. In production, apparently cloudflare cached these pdfs after some sort of traffic threshold was reached (I guess they are all very similar in size...though they are probably not exactly the same size.) Now customer…

If CF download the file to check the hash, it wouldn't really be helpful as a caching service. That would mean CF would hit your server for each request before it served up the asset to the customer. Your server wouldn't benefit from caching. Maybe you'd get a small speed increase from their worldwide endpoints but that would reduce the advantage of having CF manage your site. One of the biggest advantages is that CF serves hits that your server wouldn't have to. That allows you to need less infrastructure.

Further, it might be better to never serve sensitive financial data via a 3rd party server. That kind of data would be best served directly to the customer's browser from your server.

Re: CloudFlare and Google Cloud Platform

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Post by manigandham »

manigandham wrote: post #88

To offset some of the feedback here, we run close to a billion requests a month through CloudFlare with no issues at all. We use their Strict SSL setting and everything is fast and secure and we save a ton on bandwidth. As far as CDN service goes, free SSL and bandwidth and peering + all of their datacenter locations + DNS integration gives us better latency than pretty much everyone else we've tried.

Hacker News and Reddit and StackOverflow use CloudFlare too. So they must be doing something right.
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