If I disable Page Caching, is Cloudflare still working for visitors to the site?

  • Resolved rdholla

    (@rdholla)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    I import large CSV files to publish listings in our directory.

    Disabling the SPCC plugin seems to help improve the import speed and efficiency during the import process… and then once import completes, I re-enable the SPCC plugin.

    My question is… when I disable the plugin temporarily to execute the import process, is Cloudflare platform still working / delivering cached content to visitors to all the pages in our site?

    I wish I knew a way to speed up our import process… but at the moment the best way I’ve found is to simply disable SPCC plugin, and re-enable when import is complete.

    But whenever I disable the plugin to do import runs, I’m always concerned about the performance of our site during our the import process.

    Thoughts on this?

    Thank you so much!

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi,
    When you disable cache via the plugin or deactivate the plugin, Cloudflare is still proxing your website content. The only difference is that your pages are not being cached and served from CDN. Your static files are still cached and served from CDN.

    If for some reason like performing import operation, you would like to bypass cloudflare, there are two process that you can take.

    Option 1

    Use the system-level host file to point directly to the server IP. You can google about how to use or modify host files and you will find many results.

    Option 2

    Inside your Cloudflare DNS, make your website Gray clouded instead of Orange Clouded. Then perform your operation and make the DNS record orange clouded again.

    Thread Starter rdholla

    (@rdholla)

    thank you so much for the reply…

    with Option 2, do I keep the plugin enabled? or would I disable it…?

    option 2 seems like an easier thing to do, would you agree?

    Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi,
    You can keep the plugin enabled, as when the record is grey clouded nothing will flow through the Cloudflare network so the plugin won’t cause any issues. Maybe inside the plugin settings, you click on the disable page cache option when the record is gray clouded just to ensure the plugin doesn’t make any API requests.

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