Cloudflare / Incapsula

**xploit** · 06-12-11, 10:53 AM

Has anyone ever tried either of these services?

Performance, Security & Apps for Any Website | CloudFlare | Compare plans

Pricing and Plans

As you can see from their sites, they both have free options available.

Which service have you tried if any, which would you try and are there any other better alternatives?

Thanks...

ndev2k · 06-12-11, 11:32 AM

I have seen cloudflare in action and as it is a cloud based hosting it can still serve your pages even if a datacentre goes down.

**ryan1087** · 06-12-11, 11:44 AM

Abduzedoo (Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials) use cloudflare, their site was down for a few days the other week and it had an cloudflare error and it said no record of it so I'm not sure it's all that successful as it makes out.

**xploit** · 06-12-11, 11:51 AM

The incapsula site loads three times as fast for me as the cloudflare one does - anyone ever used that?

LightWave · 06-12-11, 12:33 PM

I've used Cloudflare only so far (the free one) ..... can be a bit flaky, used to have down time now and again.. tho has been pretty good lately.

Cloudflare settings can be a bit iffy - I turned Automatic IPv6 on and everything went belly up o_0 which was fun. Rocket loader if switched on can stop some scripts from working etc.....

....oh yeah, every time I use support at "Host The Name" ... they demand that I take Cloudflare off! ... it vexes them you see, they become terribly vexed ;D .... of course when I'm finished with the plebs, I turn it back on again.

Might try out the free incapsula .. tho the features I want are in the paid plans.

**xploit** · 06-12-11, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LightWave

....oh yeah, every time I use support at "Host The Name" ... they demand that I take Cloudflare off! ... it vexes them you see, they become terribly vexed ;D .... of course when I'm finished with the plebs, I turn it back on again.

Not sure if you have had their E-Mail but this may interest you...

Quote:

Dear Martin

This notice is to inform you of an upcoming emergency hardware upgrade scheduled to take place from December 6, 2011 11:00pm until December 7, 2011 2:00am (3 hour window), Central Standard Time (GMT -6). This maintenance is required in order to increase the stability of the private core network.

The only website affected is Cheap Website Hosting | SEO Hosting | Cheap SEO Hosting

During a small 5 minute window HostTheName.com will appear unavailable to the internet but will be back online quickly. We are having to upgrade our main site's core network to support the upcoming influx of traffic from our new partnerships at Google and Cloudflare.

We will be releasing more news and information about the said partnerships in the coming days.

Please note that only HostTheName.com will be affected by this maintenance, and your websites and web servers will all work as normal, so do not be alarmed. Please also note that our website HostTheName.com is in a completely independent network than any of your websites and web servers so any maintenance done to our websites does not affect you at all.

No other outages are expected but in the case that one were to occur, there is a plan in place to restore services as quickly as possible.

If you have further questions, please let us know. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

All the best,

Oscar Hernandez

So they will want to be allowing CloudFlare for you from now on as they have a partnership with them

LightWave · 07-12-11, 12:59 PM

yep.... got that email from the plebs around five minutes after I posted and logged out...

- couldn't edit.

......tis good tho ... even after all their bellyaching.

06-12-11, 10:53 AM	#1
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06-12-11, 11:44 AM	#3
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06-12-11, 11:51 AM	#4
xploit Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bristol Posts: 3,705	The incapsula site loads three times as fast for me as the cloudflare one does - anyone ever used that? __________________ Spoiler I'm available to guest post on your quality blog - any subject considered PM me if interested... SEO Confusing? Help is here: Grass Roots SEO Visit my Sites: FREE rewards • FREE Consoles • Follow me on Twitter: @martinevansnet My Blog: Martin Evans • Latest post: SEO Ranking factors

06-12-11, 12:33 PM	#5
LightWave Greetings Program Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Grid Posts: 45	I've used Cloudflare only so far (the free one) ..... can be a bit flaky, used to have down time now and again.. tho has been pretty good lately. Cloudflare settings can be a bit iffy - I turned Automatic IPv6 on and everything went belly up o_0 which was fun. Rocket loader if switched on can stop some scripts from working etc..... ....oh yeah, every time I use support at "Host The Name" ... they demand that I take Cloudflare off! ... it vexes them you see, they become terribly vexed ;D .... of course when I'm finished with the plebs, I turn it back on again. Might try out the free incapsula .. tho the features I want are in the paid plans.

07-12-11, 12:59 PM	#7
LightWave Greetings Program Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Grid Posts: 45	yep.... got that email from the plebs around five minutes after I posted and logged out... - couldn't edit. ......tis good tho ... even after all their bellyaching.