Benefits of Using CDN w/ Cloudflare

  • Resolved tiredofit

    (@tiredofit)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hello, I’ve been a W3 user for a while and decided to start using the Cloudflare integration as of lately with 0.92.2 – I was wondering, since I already run self hosted CDN (4 of them) off of my domain name https://www.tiredofit.ca does it make sense to continue doing this even if cloudflare is providing the content serving and distribution?

    I’m just curious as to the name lookup times, and if there is any benefit to continue keeping it as is.

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  • No. CloudFlare should be enough, and you wont need any other CDNs – – that, I must say, only if you are very comfortable with CloudFlare (as it’s pretty complex for normal users).

    JTLYK, you won’t see any drastic loading time changes once you stop using other CDNs. CloudFlare is just fast, and single-handedly does it well.

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    I recommend using a CDN if you feel the need regardless of whether or not you use cloudflare.

    Cloudflare doesn’t cache html requests but not sure how something like a CDN mirror setting enabled in W3 + Cloudflare enabled would work.

    Theoretically the request would look like:

    Web Surfer -> Cloudflare -> Yourserver.com/W3 -> Your mirrored CDN (like speedymirror)

    W3 would then shoot the mirrored content back to cloudflare and back to the web surfer.

    Does this whole set up make any sense? I tried to google for some info of using a mirrored type CDN + Cloudflare with w3 but didnt seem to find much

    @nittybitty that depends on your cloudflare settings. If your mirrored CDN is on a subdomain you could set cloudflare not to handle the subdomain.

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