Hey there, I’ve been working with some other people to finish an ad-hoc migration of our old vbulletin3 to discourse. Now it’s time to start thinking about some other aspect for the migration, one of which is the fact that we have a cloudflare account that serves our forum. We would like to keep it…

[imagem] Crius: which is the fact that we have a cloudflare account that serves our forum. Serves how? It’s easiest to just use dns mode. If you want to spend some extra time for very little benefit, there are some topics about that. Mostly, you disable the optimizations that break discourse.…

[imagem] Jay Pfaffman: If what you want is to take some load off of your server, then a real cdn like It might be a little short-sighted to imply that Cloudflare is not a “real CDN” ? Because it is (and more than that). Maybe you meant “traditional” CDN ? Setting up a traditional CDN will co…

[imagem] Richard - Communiteq: Maybe you meant “traditional” CDN ? Fair enough! [imagem] Richard - Communiteq: Setting up a traditional CDN will cost a lot more time and get you about the same amount of benefit. And cloudflare may be cheaper, as the free version is likely enough for l…

I’m sorry I don’t want to cause a discussion about which CDN is best etc. I’ve yet to get more info myself but as far as I understand, the forum currently use a paid plan (so not the free option I guess) but even so, it’s beyond the point. Simple question :slight_smile: → What do I need to do to s…

[imagem] Crius: the forum currently use a paid plan (so not the free option I guess) If you are hosted by discourse.org , or anyone else, for that matter. You should check with them before doing anything with cloudflare. Typically you just create a DNS CNAME that points to their servers. Disc…

Thanks @pfaffman , it’s self hosted. As I said it’s used for the current vbulletin forum that will simply go offline and be replaced by discourse which will respond from the same domain name.

[imagem] Crius: What do I need to do to set cloudflare up so it doesn’t bother discourse? It depends on what role (if any) you want Cloudflare to play. If you just want to use Cloudflare as DNS then make sure the orange cloud is disabled for the ‘a’ record of the forum. If you want to actua…

Thank you @Stephen . Cloudflare was (well, still is for now) used to not overload the actual webserver with requests. I was wondering most of all, with Discourse nature of real time updates (I’m assuming websocket? didn’t check) how that could be a problem with something like cloudflare caching and…

I don’t know anything and that’s why I’m so lost every now and then, but it sounds like you are looking for the nature of PHP but you get the nature of JavaScript app where everything except getting actual data is happening in users’s device. That is the reason (and my limited skills) why my attemp…

Right, Cloudflare isn’t able to do anything to reduce application server load. As a single page javascript app, Discourse really doesn’t benefit. It gets worse though, because putting Discourse behind Cloudflare adds network hops for every requests between the app in browser and server, so there’s …

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Crius (Crius) Janeiro 28, 2023, 5:17pm 14

Obrigado pela visão e informação @RGJ, acho que vou apenas monitorar e veremos como as coisas vão. Espero que não exija um aumento massivo nos requisitos em comparação com o software anterior

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