How Exactly should I add cloudflare CDN to discourse?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@azaleas

I’ve been trying to add cloudflare cdn to my discourse forum. Couldnt find any direct tutorials or faqs.

Did you check these?

Install Discourse on Amazon WS with Cloudflare

This installation method is not officially endorsed. Use at your own risk. The Discourse team only recommend installation using the official install guide Discourse is a pretty awesome piece of software and it come with plenty of options for hosting. We wanted to setup our on AWS with dedicated servers for each services for maximum scalability and performance If you want an hassle free easy deployment I recommend using the default Docker install. If you want a fancier setup then r…

Force Discourse to use SSL/HTTPS through CloudFlare

How to use CloudFlare’s platform to force all traffic over HTTPS connection using page rules. This is an up to date and user-friendly (fool-proof) way that I use each time and it works perfectly. Sign up to CloudFlare here - they offer SSL/HTTPS on their Free plan, so that will be just fine for us. Add your site here - the system will scan for DNS records, make sure all are correct and add any records not picked automatically by the scan i.e. MX records. You will the have to add the CloudFl…

@azaleas

I’m building a small forum/first forum, so I don’t want to pay for CDN.

If it’s a small forum, why bother with CDN? It would seem that if you had a big enough forum to require a CDN, then you’d have the money to pay for one.