Enable a CDN for your Discourse

[bartv (Bart)]

Yes, we use it that way and it works well. Just be very careful to disable any javascript optimizations. You can see our setup here:

S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying

I’m using Cloudflare on my Discourse site and it works fine. You basically route all your traffic through Cloudflare and tell it what to process or cache and that’s it. There are a few things to keep in mind though: Configure Cloudflare to NOT cache anything (set up exceptions using page rules, see below). Don’t let Cloudflare touch your Javascript - specifically, turn off Rocket Loader. I’m not sure about Brotli compression yet, I disabled it. Set up page rules to cache the avatar and upload …