Compatibility with Cloudflare & Image Optimization Plugins

  • Resolved jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there!

    Your plugin sounds promising and it’s probably the best one available at this time to host images via CDN.

    If you don’t mind, before we install and use it, we have several questions:

    (1) Does your plugin conflict with Cloudflare?

    (2) Does your plugin conflict with any other image optimization plugins? (e.g., reSmushit, EWWW, etc.)

    (3) Once your plugin is installed, will we have full control of our images? (e.g., delete, upload, resize, etc.)

    (4) If we decide that Sirv is not working for us, and we delete the plugin, will our images be restored to their original state?

    Thank you! We look forward to your reply.

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  • Hello!

    Thanks for your questions.

    (1) Our plugin does not conflict with Cloudflare. You can use it alongside Cloudflare. Just tell Cloudflare to ignore images served from your Sirv subdomain (or your custom subdomain). Sirv will handle your images and Cloudflare will handle your other files (HTML, JS, CSS and other static images including any images which Sirv can’t automatically sync and serve).

    (2) There are no known issues with other image optimization plugins. If you find a conflict, please report it and we’ll resolve it. In general, other image optimization plugins are not required because Sirv handles the optimization (and optimizes them smaller, including automatically serving WebP format when possible).

    (3) You’d continue uploading images to WordPress as normal. Sirv will automatically serve sync and serve them (on demand when the first ever user requests a new image). It just works – whatever size is requested, it’ll serve it. You can also request a specific size or crop or any other edit (80+ options) if you wish. In your Sirv account, you can upload, download, delete, move, copy etc. all your images, just like on your own filesystem on your computer. See https://my.sirv.com/.

    (4) You can stop using the Sirv plugin any time. All images synced by the plugin will still exist on your own server, so WordPress will just serve your images instead. If you uploaded any images directly to Sirv – e.g. if you’re manually embedding an image into a page or post – you should update those image URLs if you close your Sirv account.

    It’s easy and fast. No risk, so go ahead and install it and send us any questions!

    Thread Starter jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)

    Thank you! We installed Sirv. We’re giving it a spin.

    (1) We’ll reach out to Cloudflare for assistance.

    (2) OK. We had reSmush.it activated. Deactivated it. Activated Sirv. No issues noted.

    (3) Sirv is hanging (waiting for images to upload). We only have 251 images. It’s taking a while.

    (4) OK

    Great!

    (3) Slow synchronization can happen if: the network connection from your server and Sirv’s primary datacentre is slow; your server is limiting/throttling the number of concurrent requests or bandwidth; your server is very busy; your site is on a shared server which is struggling for resources; your images have very large file-sizes.

    A future major plugin version will fetch images from your server using a different, faster method. Meanwhile, you can refresh the page and hit the sync button again (it’ll pick up where it left off) or you can send our support team a login to your WordPress and we’ll check what’s happening:

    https://sirv.com/contact/

    Guia da Massagem em Recife

    (@guiadamassagememrecife)

    Great question from jetxpert and great explantion from sirv support.
    I had the same questions. Thanks!

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