Cloudflare

Hi Remigo! Surge does work with Cloudflare and other HTTP proxies. However, you mentioned you’re using the LiteSpeed Cache plugin as well? If that’s the case, note that it already ships with a page caching module, so I wouldn’t recommend using both plugins at the same time, as it may cause conflicts between the two.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

K

That makes sense, but what about the caching that Cloudflare itself does? Is your plugin redundant to that effort or complementary? Caching is confusing, so I’m not quite sure.

Thanks

Depends on your Cloudflare configuration. By default Cloudflare will only cache static assets, like images and JavaScript, but not the actual page HTML (which is what Surge caches), so with a default configuration it’s certainly beneficial to use both.

However, Cloudflare also has a way to cache HTML pages as well on their paid plans. Now this could sound slightly redundant, and the gains may be minimal, but it certainly won’t hurt. Multi-tiered caching configurations tend to work really well, provided there is proper invalidation in place. Surge will invalidate its own cache when needed, but for Cloudfront you’ll have to find something separate, their own plugin perhaps.

Hope that helps!

Got it, thanks. We’re not on a paid plan so I’ll definitely be checking out your plugin.

Great, let me know if you need further assistance!

Konstantin