Moving hosts – part 2 – CloudFlare

Penguins_on_the_Move_600I’ve now enabled CloudFlare as CDN, is it all it’s hyped up to be? Here is a small unscientific poll to give your feeling on how or if it affected the perceived speed of this website.

I’ll be monitoring performance through other means, but I’m interested to know if it translates to any perceived speedups. Previously, users in France and Western Europe in general should have had a fast website, but other continents probably saw their share of lag.

How do you feel the speed of this website has evolved?

  • I'm from Europe and it's faster (28%, 11 Votes)
  • I'm from Europe and it's slower (3%, 1 Votes)
  • I'm from America and it's faster (8%, 3 Votes)
  • I'm from America and it's slower (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I'm from Asia and it's faster (8%, 3 Votes)
  • I'm from Asia and it's slower (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I'm from Africa and it's faster (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I'm from Africa and it's slower (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I'm from Oceania and it's faster (3%, 1 Votes)
  • I'm from Oceania and it's slower (0%, 0 Votes)
  • I'm from somewhere else and it's faster (3%, 1 Votes)
  • I'm from somewhere else and it's slower (0%, 0 Votes)
  • It's about the same (49%, 19 Votes)

Total Voters: 39

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The actual web server being CloudFlare’d is currently hosted in France, if you want to make direct comparisons, you can reach it at http://direct.delphitools.info/ (not that this URL will only work for the homepage, following link will quickly have you fallback to the CDN servers)