Ask HN: What cloudflare settings do you use?

Posted by GigabyteCoin on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

And what pros or cons do you see by using them?

I just signed up for the $20/mo plan and am scratching my head as to what to pick for "Security" and "Performance" options at the end of the signup page.

The options for Performance are:

- CDN ONLY

- CDN + Basic optimizations (faster)

- CDN + Full optimizations (bleeding edge speed)

And the options for Security are:

- Essentially Off

- Low

- Medium

- High

I chose the highest security and the full optimizations as I figure I may as well get what I paid for. I am a little worried about the mention of possible captchas for accessing my site, however.

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Re:Ask HN: What cloudflare settings do you use? by bredman on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:11PM (#7253420)

I'm not a CloudFlare expert but my guess is that there are some risks to the "bleeding edge" optimizations. The decision probably comes down to a trade-off of how much you want to minimize risk and support older browsers in exchange for speed.

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