Thread: Anyone tried Cloudflare?

**Mike Hopley** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 12.43

In particular, their Railgun feature sounds interesting, if expensive. They claim it improves website performance by an average of 730%!

**Frinkky** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 13.56

I've used Cloud flare for my site for ages, albeit the free plan. I also use Site5 so I may well benefit from Railgun due to them being an 'Optimized Hosting Partner'.

Looking at my account stats, Cloudflare is telling me it's doing a good job

Seriously, I do recall when the server I'm on was experiencing issues and was regularly checking. Even when it was down the basic content of my site was still available (thanks CF!!) so not a complete washout.

I can only suggest to run some tests now, try out the free plan and run more tests once the nameserver changes have propagated.

**Mike Hopley** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 15.01

I also use Site5 so I may well benefit from Railgun due to them being an 'Optimized Hosting Partner'.

I was wondering about this too (I'm also with Site5). At $200 per month, buying Railgun direct from Cloudflare is a bit too pricey for me; but I wonder what the discount might be when buying it via Site5?

I can only suggest to run some tests now, try out the free plan and run more tests once the nameserver changes have propagated.

Thanks!

**Frinkky** · 30 Jul 2012 @ 17.57

From what I understand you don't need to purchase Railgun separately - Site5 have it configured already: https://www.cloudflare.com/hosting-partners

**Mike Hopley** · 31 Jul 2012 @ 08.55

From what I understand you don't need to purchase Railgun separately - Site5 have it configured already: https://www.cloudflare.com/hosting-partners

Originally Posted by Frinkky

Excellent.

I don't think they have it available just yet; but when they do, I shall be very tempted to test this 730% assertion!

**Frinkky** · 31 Jul 2012 @ 10.32

I don't think they have it available just yet;...

Originally Posted by Mike Hopley

I think you're right there: State of Site5: July 2012 | Site5 Webmaster Blog – Learn about all those internet tube things!

**Frinkky** · 27 Sep 2012 @ 11.09

Just had an update from Site5 re CloudFlare - testing has been performed but they are waiting for the new version of CF which will fix some bugs. They'll update me again in 30 days.

**Mike Hopley** · 27 Sep 2012 @ 14.34

Just had an update from Site5 re CloudFlare - testing has been performed but they are waiting for the new version of CF which will fix some bugs. They'll update me again in 30 days.

Originally Posted by Frinkky

Thanks for the update!

**Jacob** · 28 Sep 2012 @ 10.37

I have been following your conversation - anything Mike gets excited about is worth reading ;-) but you might as well be talking a different language ha ha.

Where does Cloudflare (free version) fit into your web setup, does it replace your hosing package or do you add it to your setup with Cloudfare working in between?

Who would Cloudflare be useful to, is this type of thing for resource heavy websites aimed at a worldwide audiance or can all website benifit from Cloudflare?

Thanks

**Frinkky** · 28 Sep 2012 @ 11.56

Rather than pointing the nameservers on my domain straight to my host, I point them to CloudFlare. I point my CF account to my host.

Anyone could benefit really. I employed it as a back up as it also serves a cached version of your site if the host becomes temporarily unavailable.