Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Will keep you updated but the internet connection in Indonesia is so variable I'm not sure I'd know how to ascribe any improved speed to the changes.

It may depend on your ISP as well as desktop OS - if you ISP's DNS nameserver has an old record cached for www.lfgss.com then you'll still be talking to the old site.

I'm on virgin ADSL:

www.lfgss.com. 1847 IN A 109.74.206.114

... it will be 1800 seconds before I see the new site

The CloudFlare network map looks like this:
https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map

Those locations should be where all images and static files now come from.

The dynamic pages will still come all the way from London, but everything else on the page should come from a location much closer to you.

to add some comparative data, i live in the sticks at the end of a copper network:

5 seconds for a script page, up to 30 seconds for a picture page

I'm on virgin ADSL:

www.lfgss.com. 1847 IN A 109.74.206.114

... it will be 1800 seconds before I see the new site

Yeah, some ISP nameservers may still reflect the old info for another 24 hours.

It seems faster to me. (I'm currently in Germany.)

That's good.

Part of the SSL site is broken at the moment, but I'm working on that.

Is Cloudflare like Akamai, in that during a DDoS attack you stay up, but get a massive bill for all the content "served" to the attack traffic?

No, it's bizarrely cheap.

$200 per month for DDoS defence as well as analysis of botnet and other attacks.

No more to pay regardless of traffic volume, and they do the CDN in the same package regardless of whether you have 1 hit in a 4KB file or 6 million hits on 9GB of files (which is what LFGSS gets).

I questioned their pricing thoroughly before trying them out. And if I ever discover it's not what I think changing it back is pretty effortless for me.

For other people who may not have done the work I've done, not using CloudFlare might be a problem, but their setup is very similar to what I do already... but someone else gets to manage it for me.

Golly.

What SLA do you get? If you can get nailed with 60Gb of attack traffic and stay up with zero slowdown for $200/month then that's awesome.

Five nines. Which is crazy.

Only email support though, you have to pay a LOT more for 24/7 phone support.

Oh, and CloudFlare is integrated with Project Honeypot, so they block known spammers too.

And we're doing closer to 140GB of traffic per month now.

Part of the SSL site is broken at the moment, but I'm working on that.
Href links seem to be pointing to the http site,not the https site.

And it appears to be possible to be logged into the http site as a different user than the https site.

Do you have to invoke with a BGP or DNS change to route through their servers, or are you permanently running through them?

Five nines is nice I suppose, for $200 it's great, but that's were the money is being saved I imagine.

nameservers go through them.

Href links seem to be pointing to the http site,not the https site.

And it appears to be possible to be logged into the http site as a different user than the https site.

That's the bit I'm looking at.

I'll stop playing for 30 minutes as obviously some cycling event is happening that we're chatting about.

I believe I'm done... the SSL stuff should now work everywhere without any slow down.

In fact, the SSL should get faster for people using the Chrome browser in a week or two as I'll add support for SPDY.

Am i going to get this message each time i post?

"Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party.

Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?"

Using firefox

Also with Safari

"this is a non secure form

This form will be sent in a way that is not secure. Are you sure you want to send it?"

Anyone else being logged out every time you change thread / try to post (this is 5th time trying to post this!)

Ah, it worked ... Finally.

Still getting logged out every time I change thread / click on 'subscribed'.

Several people have reported cookie related issues today.

When those people have used Chrome's private browsing mode it's been fine.

This suggest that there is a problem with cookies, and the only thing I can suggest is that you clear your cookies in your browser.