More than happy to answer any questions about CloudFlare.

"Are there any downfalls to using a CDN?[/QUOTE]"
Not really, since you would be offloading some of the burden from static content and the like. Your visitors would also see faster loading times because they are being routed to the closest datacenter.

Some quick tips if you do signup for CloudFlare.

Nice. Good to hear. I think I'll sign up for the free version. Have you guys noticed a difference in rankings? I read all over about CDNs and SEO, kind of a complex issue.. Obviously CloudFlare's website proclaims SEO benefits. Just don't want to potentially hurt my rankings (I'm very cautious and paranoid of this lol)

I don't know if is ha anything to do with CloudFlare (except speed), but my main keyword site rose from page 12 before panda to page 6, then to page 2, after a bunch or university sites. My longtail keyword sites rode (3 out of 6) rose from page 3-4 (after years in obscurity and actually deindexed once) to page 1, positions 3-4. No. 6 site is #3 first first page (last I looked).

Who know where they'll all be tomorrow. I had the sites up for more than 10 years and learned not rely on Big G.

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Personally, I'd go all out and get MaxCDN.

I did it a few weeks ago and it has made a fantastic difference.

My full load time went from 3.7 seconds to 1.6, or thereabouts.

Worth every penny, and if you're on WordPress you can use W3TC plugin to make set up even easier.

As Matt Cutts sayes or almost sayes the loading time of a website is a factor Google uses in its algorithm. There a number of plugins to speed up your loading time and reduce the size of images, content and other factors that can slow your site down.

I found ths as a content delivery post and thought it was based on content delivery. As far as that goes my experience is you must be careful when using these things. CloudFare as far as I have heard and witnessed is very good if not the best. The main thing is to get the benifits without getting the snadbox or other restrictions from Google and Co. CloudFare does a great job and you are in ggod hands. They are always changing and adapting to changes made by the big boys. They serve different purposes. To be a conent delivery network and to protect your website and content from all the idiots out there who only want to cause harm through spaming, hacking and viruses just to mention a few.

I'm trying to setup my sites on CloudFlare. It brings up a list of "DNS zone files" during setup that I have to verify and add any missing records. I don't know where to find a list of these files with my hosting provider or domain registrar. These are the types of files that start with A, CNAME, TXT, MX, etc. Anyone know where to find a complete list of these for your site?

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CloudFlare hands down. Their support, especially Damon is the best. Anytime we have had any sort of issue and had to work together with CloudFlare we were able to get it resolved very quickly.

Just keep in mind, the free CloudFlare is free, already integrated and ready to go. We have a lot of customers who use it as well as our main site. A bit ago, I did a review of CloudFlare before & after integrating it with our website. Since then, our company has grown a lot as well as the amount of CF users.



Gary (zacsmith), thanks for mentioning us, and I'm definitely glad to hear that you noticed an immediate performance increase. The combination of using LiteSpeed, optimized servers & CloudFlare is amazing.

Since then, CloudFlare has been constantly adding new features for performance, availability & security.

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