I have been reading about CloudFlare for some time and decided to give it a try. CloudFlare promises to speed up a web site using several technologies, including caching static content on their CDN, minifying content, and blocking access to malicious bots.
I installed it on this site for testing and, at least initially, I am impressed. HTML, Javascript and CSS are all nicely minified. Having static content in their CDN means that loading (for instance) the Help Others Now page hits my server for only one resource, the page itself, and the other 18 resources on the page are handled elsewhere.
Assuming this experiment goes well, I will try CloudFlare on some of my business sites.
Watching the video on their homepage *without* sound is very funny! 🙂
Aside from that though, sounds cool! I might need to try it on stlswedespeed.com – maybe make the forums better?
Yes, it should make your forums faster and should block nefarious bots (if they are a problem for you)