Improving Flarum speed with Cloudflare cache

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1Dot Yes, but note the 403 error code. You can't rely on this site to present real figures unless you whitelist the IP address at CF. On investigation, it's being blocked by the Browser integrity check but the traffic request does make it to my server which responds.

Very odd. 100% unreliable test in this case though.

1Dot

[deleted] Browser integrity check

Phenomlab But I can see the ip accessed my server in my server logs and also screenshot is of site not that access denied.

Yes but there are a lot of differences I used that pingdom you share see what I got

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1Dot Phenomlab But I can see the ip accessed my server in my server logs and also screenshot is of site not that access denied.

Same here

1Dot Yes but there are a lot of differences I used that pingdom you share see what I got

Yes, but look at your load time ! Anything over 1 second these days is considered slow.

rob006

1Dot also screenshot is of site not that access denied.

Screenshot is provided by different service in different data center.

rob006

[deleted] It does the same on all sites - even those without CF it seems 😕 and it's the same with discuss.

Disqus is behind Cloudflare. My blog isn't and it is working fine:

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rob006 Very interesting. I see your site is also WordPress - impressive !

1Dot

[deleted] Yes, but look at your load time ! Anything over 1 second these days is considered slow.

Hmm Any tips to improve this and what's the problem with gtmetrix I always get A

Stylix58

My website have a C grade on GT Metrix. I don't use Cloudflare.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/discuss.stylix.ynh.fr/jEwisSKD/

1Dot

Stylix58 Your site is down as per I can see or maybe you blocked some countries and a PRO tip use cloudflare and do the configuration I share you will get a A grade

Stylix58

1Dot
Sorry but this domain is a subdomain, and Cloudflare don't allow that subdomain.

Stylix58

1Dot
I don't have my own domain btw. Also I can't use Freenom because he is dead bruh!

Kulga

There are two main reasons I've been using cloudflare behind a proxy

Really fast DNS updates. Sometimes I will allocate a forum to another server and not having a "up to" 48 hour update window is nice.

It also hides some ports like ssh, even though it doesn't seem to help cut down on logs much 😅

MohdKhan

I'll share my experience in detail.

Actually I feel using CF for DNS is only good Choice Else a Myth.

MohdKhan

TTFB Race ...

1Dot

MohdKhan Status code is 403 check with pingdom

Braden

1Dot i have setup a cloudflare account, you mentioned earlier

1Dot You can still connect to terminal when you use cloudflare all you need to change NameServer and cloudflare doesn't even touches port 22

After changing all proxied, below in SRV there is still parts of my host server, for example:

Which one should we use in Target
HERA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM or JIM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
is it really the one we should change for terminal to work?

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Braden for terminal to work you should just use SSH and connect to the IP address instead of the hostname. That way, you won't expose your IP address.

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1Dot this is incorrect. If you try to access SSH using the name of the domain (for example, ssh admin@nysite.com) and you are behind CF this will fail. It's because of the A record entry which CF will mask with one of its own IP addresses instead behind it's proxy.

The nature of TCP is that the connection request waits up to 30 seconds for an ACK response it will never receive, and so it times out as a result.

Braden

[deleted] Thank you ! It means the host terminal will nolonger be available ☹️ but instead you'll have to use a SSH program, omg! I wonder which answers will 1Dot come with after reading this

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Braden you can use the local command prompt on Windows for this. Just just ssh myuser@ipaddress -p 22 (I'm assuming Windows - it'll work massively in Linux also from CLI and you won't need the port if you are using the default.

Braden

[deleted] i never thought there was that functionality with windows, thanks , but i will just use puTTy it seem simple to maneuver.

In File Size Optimization, did enable Auto minify?

1Dot

Braden Hello yes you can still do ssh but with IP I was incorrect I by mistake said as I always do it with IP, I have a best tip for you use mobaxterm portable free version here your ip will be saved once you login and also you will be able to see a visual file manager so easy work actually. 😁

Braden In File Size Optimization, did enable Auto minify?

Yes it's good here is the detail tutorial for flarum written by me also the main thing is edge cache just enable that for a month (Not tention when you will update css/js it will be automatically done as flarum adds ?version in file) only for assets folder.

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