Question regarding cloudflare (8)
Hi guys,
I recently implemented cloudflare.
I'm pointing my nameservers to the cloudflare's dns.
Does this mean my current hosting with liquidweb is completely not in use?
I'm doing direct link to my offers.
Thanks.
What are you using Cloudflare for?
Cloudflare primarily acts as a CDN for your hosted assets - if you're direct-linking you're not referencing them. However, I assume (I don't know for sure) that their anti-DDOS and bot protection would still work.
Beware - if you're using Cloudflare with your tracking system, you may find that the two don't play well together without some configuration. I know Zeno's been using Cloudflare recently, so hopefully he'll chime in on this.
Cloud flare is useful for me as a geolocation tool, I put cloud flare in front of my home brewed tracking platform to get the country of the visitor. I find them more accurate that other geolocation services.
As for the main differences, cloud flare passes a couple more headers so you can get the IP address of the visitor ($_SERVER['remoteip'] returns the IP address of the cloud flare server that passed on the request.) it's interior API documentation.
@jennatialia - ah, that's a clever trick!
I was thinking that cloudflare was a CDN?
It would deliver faster pages?
I'm running a campaign targeting colombia so i thought the page load speed would be quicker with cloudflare?
Correct me if i'm wrong.
Thanks.
CloudFlare is CDN but it has a bunch of useful features on top of the CDN portion 
. Check the control panel and you will see it has lots of goodies in there.
There is an easy way to get the real IP for your tracking system for pretty much any web service. If you are on a dedicated package like VPS/DS/Cloud and you have root access it is easy to set that up. Let me know which is the web service you use ( Apache, Nginx, lighttpd or ? ) and I will give you the lines you need to add to the main config file.
@teoooo - If you're direct-linking you won't see a speed increase, because the offer pages aren't on your domain. However, if you start running a lander on your domain with Cloudflare, that will be noticably faster in Colombia in all likelihood.
@caurmen ok thanks!
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