Discourse and cloudflare

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

All posts are not created equal so have you looked at the official how-to for admins:

Full site CDN acceleration for Discourse

Fastly , CloudFlare and a few other CDNs offer a mode where they accelerate dynamic content. In a nutshell you point your domain IP address at the CDN and the CDN will intelligently decide how to deal with the request. Static content can be easily served from cache Dynamic content can be routed to the site. This provides some advantages over only shipping static assets which is covered in the CDN howto. You can elect for “shielding” that protects your site from traffic spikes. Dynamic cont…

I don’t use Cloudflare but I understand that you should disable Cloudflare’s speed/performance optimizations for JavaScript, CSS and HTML. It is particularly important to disable Rocket Loader:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168206-How-do-I-access-my-Cloudflare-Performance-Settings-