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Never used it... Heard a lot of bad things for it, however a huge load of good things as well..
Im Official Partner using a lot, never gets errors to my hosted sites or complaints. If you have healthy nameservers i dont see why you can't use it.
I used it for about an hour on our website but switched back to DNSMadeEasy, CF just didn't work for us and if we wanted it to work it would have been to expensive. I do use CF on my personal website and I don't get any complaints about it (although I don't get a lot of traffic either).
When I was using cloudflare, for every single "false positive", it turned out that they had a virus of some kind.
I only use cloudflare for dns with "passthrough"(no caching). With caching, I was getting >11 secs respond time and pingdom constantly reports it as down.
@hawnerk set your security setting to off or low if you want to minimize captcha checks. There's usually a good reason they're getting it though
If you use cloudflare, and your site starts having issues, please turn off cloudflare and check again, before you ask your host about server issues. Every "server issue" we've had with shared hosting has turned out to be broken/incorrectly-configured cloudflare....
I had an issue exactly via the plugin... I can stand behind @Damian on this case, it is absolutely the same with us. We get atleast 3 issues monthly, cloudflare related, the only tickets I get for the shared hosting I am offering.
I know for a fact many people hear of Cloudflare and think instantly it can be used for DDOS protection. Correct traffic gets filtered but still...
I use Cloudflare for DNS on all my lowendboxes.
I've never really had an issue with it, it works and it works well.
Exactly.
I use cloudflare with few CMS websites maybe half year or so but so far no issues.
what about the uptime?
Isn't exactly uptime thing where should be no issues with CloudFlare? When people complain regarding CloudFlare they usually report false/positives downtime notices about their site hosting not CloudFlare itself.
So far I haven't seen or got report from my site visitors about such issues.
Good for you. Sometimes CF even give me captcha! how nice of them
Been using it for at least a year now and working great
You use pro or free only?
Site noticed down while actually it is up? Where is the settings?
iptables --list
Ow yeah you're right, I accidentally blocked port 80 on my iptables
Ha! CloudFlare works when you set it to essentially off. Otherwise yuo will have random false positives.
@Zen
You have a long way to go. Trying to sound so wise yet you feel coming from an empty shell.
If you read my first post, I set my security setting to -ESSENTIALLY OFF- (I capitalized, bolded, italicized, and striked it through so you wouldn't miss it) so the captcha should be very minimal and by the way, I do not consider it "people talk about when it comes to 'errors' or 'bugs'" but rather a minor imperfection of the system and I am not out here crying as if cloudflare is causing me hell, I am just having a minimal problem and asking for opinion.
Trying to sound Mr. Know-it-All huh! You missed CDN and Cache.
Once again a noob that didn't read up and think before posting.
I guess that falls under "provide optimization".
btw essential off != off. Try setting your security to custom and then editiing the specific settings on the security page.
@gsrdgrdghd
I quote "provide some optimization". How can you place it under "some" when it is as important as "managing DNS".
I only have one issue, the captcha.
"You can turn it off." You have 3000 domains on cloudflare yet until now you believe that you can turn it off? Read the comments here especially of Damon @cloudflare: http://e1ven.com/2012/02/27/thoughts-on-cloudflare/
Okay, since you don't seem to be making even a slight effort to understand what I'm saying...
Many scripts such as DoS-Deflate use iptables to block out IPs that have too many connections open. Since using Cloudflare makes all requests go through their servers, it is possible that you will receive several hundred requests from one Cloudflare IP, even if it's really several people making the requests. A script like DoS-Deflate would, at this point, blacklist that Cloudflare IP, essentially making your site unavailable for everyone that happens to be going through that specific Cloudflare server - after all, it's blocked. Cloudflare will say your site is down - after all, your server is pretending to them to not be accepting connections! - while it's actually running and accessible fine from a non-Cloudflare IP.
If this is not the case, do tell whether you attempted to contact Cloudflare support about the issue or not. I have seen many people scream that Cloudflare is 'a piece of shit and always makes my sites go down', yet none of these people seem to have made any effort to resolve the situation with the - quite helpful - Cloudflare support.
@Zen
Okay I accept my mistake with that past tense. At least I accept my mistake and not make excuses.
I know that. I was just telling you that you cannot TURN IT OFF completely no matter how you insist on the settings. Read the link I gave you.
Hey Zen / Mr. Know it All, why the hell did you box the "customize challenge page" in your screenshot? Do you even know what is it? It doesn't concern any of the issues here since it is on the cosmetic side.
Wut Zen?
@joepie91
I am just having very minor issue with I believe is false positive for .0001% of my site visitors and I am nowhere crying or screaming because of this. Just asking others' insights and opinions about cloudflare. That's all.
Letting my visitors know why they are being presented with a captcha doesn't help with my issue of some visitors being presented with a captcha which is technically what we are talking about. Stop sliding through the the holes Zen.
If you read the link I gave you, Damon of Cloudflare himself said that you cannot turn it off.
Grow up older man. Nice try. I am not sure if you trolling or just stupid.
Though you can effectively remove the function you still cannot turn it off (which contradicts your argument because when I said you cannot turn it off, you said and I quote "Yes you can") . As stated in the link you cannot turn it off which means that it is still basically there and the false positive will remain but you may never realize it unless, again and again, you read the link and because:
I just cannot feed the troll forever. Have a wonderful day Zen-Nazi!
Them's some mighty tall words for a guy who just joined yesterday.