should i enable cloudflare?

[::ALEX::]

should i enable cloud flare for my warez site?
is there any side effects of cloud flare for vbulletin?

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[tooshy]

Only side effect I can think of is that you will no longer be able to see IPs of your users - all you will see is Cloudflare IPs. This basically means you cannot ban IPs or do anything else to do with IPs.

Other than that, it will most likely improve your site performance.

[rakesh]

cloud flare can be used to optimize your site and you can check ips, analytics ban certain

ips and country and more in your cloudflare dashboard

[::ALEX::]

@ Rakesh

what do you mean by analytics ban certain?

[evoluso]

cloudflare sucks

[rakesh]

@ Rakesh

what do you mean by analytics ban certain?

well you can ban certain ip's & country from your cloud flare account

analytics shows you the no of visitors to your account

[::ALEX::]

@ evoluso

can you explain why cloudflare sucks?

[damoncloudflare]

Only side effect I can think of is that you will no longer be able to see IPs of your users - all you will see is Cloudflare IPs. This basically means you cannot ban IPs or do anything else to do with IPs.

Other than that, it will most likely improve your site performance.

The IP issue is addressed by installing something like mod_cloudflare.

[Lock Down]

I personally have constant problems with old pages or site not available when it is using cloudfare.

[IgalIncapsula]

Hi

I work for CDN security and acceleration provider (similar to CF) and wanted to say that:

A) As mentioned, all IP related issues can be easily resolved via simple php add-on.

B) Cloud CDN can provide you with many SEO related advantages. For example: better load speed, whitelisted IPs, WAF malware protection and etc.

C) From my personal experience, in case of VP (and with forum sites in general) Bad Bot blocking features, especially spammers and scrappers blockage, will probably be as important - if not more so - as the acceleration features.

We lately released a study which revealed that, on average, 50% of all incoming traffic is generated by Bots.
http://www.techspot.com/news/47826-s...s-harmful.html
Based on our experience, forums sites tend to draw more "unwanted" attention.