Questions About CloudFlare

[newcbomb]

I just have a few questions about cloudflare. I have been using the Free plan for all my websites since none of them are that large. 

 

Here are my questions

 

- Will using CF take a load off my web server (1 Core, 1GB Ram, 100mbit)?

- Will using CF with my webserver offline still work?

- Is cloudflare just a mirror or is my website hosted on all of there CDN servers?

 

Thanks

[AJJaxNet]

The way Cloudflare works is just servers that sit between the users and your webserver(s). Your website is not actually hosted at cloudflare, but they're accelerating it by caching static resources from your website (scripts, images, fonts and more). So it won't actually remove a ton of load from your server if it's a dynamic website but it will still help since your server wont serve has many of the static content.

[newcbomb]

2 minutes ago, AJJaxNet said:

The way Cloudflare works is just servers that sit between the users and your webserver(s). Your website is not actually hosted at cloudflare, but they're accelerating it by caching static resources from your website (scripts, images, fonts and more). So it won't actually remove a ton of load from your server if it's a dynamic website but it will still help since your server wont serve has many of the static content.

Thanks! So all my websites are WordPress installs that i use a caching program and minifier for, making them static HTML/CSS/JS. So does this mean all the content would then be served by cloudflare?

[AJJaxNet]

2 minutes ago, newcbomb said:

Thanks! So all my websites are WordPress installs that i use a caching program and minifier for, making them static HTML/CSS/JS. So does this mean all the content would then be served by cloudflare?

I'm pretty sure that if the path extension to your page ends in ".html", it will cache it since it means it's a static ressource. If it doesn't have an extension or something like ".php", cloudflare will forward the request to your server every single time.

[newcbomb]

1 minute ago, AJJaxNet said:

I'm pretty sure that if the path extension to your page ends in ".html", it will cache it since it means it's a static ressource. If it doesn't have an extension or something like ".php", cloudflare will forward the request to your server every single time.

Alright, thanks!