Working with Cloudflare Pro Features & Some Purging Issues

  • Resolved fredpan

    (@fredpan)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I really like this plugin! It boosts my website!!!

    So I just purchased the Cloudflare Pro plan to see if the speed can go even faster.

    Do you have any suggestions about how to use the WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache to leverage the Pro plan further?
    In other words, any idea about adjusting settings to utilize both the plugin and the Pro plan to boost the website further?

    In addition to that, I am facing some minor cache purging issues:

    1. During development with the Cloudflare development mode turning on, I, sometimes, have to manually click “purge whole cache” in order to test/see changes from, saying, incognito window. Is it normal?

    2. Will the plugin auto deactivate itself if I open the development mode in Cloudflare?

    3. Can this plugin, or together with the Pro plan, help me to propagate the cache to all the nodes (data center) even though there is no visit from certain nodes? Like, don’t know if is correct, utilizing “KV” or “Worker” to propagate the cache everywhere?

    Any suggestions would be helpful.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Do you have any suggestions about how to use the WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache to leverage the Pro plan further?

    – If you are using CF Pro, you can take advantage of CF Image Optimization, WAF and other things. Also I’ve seen that the CDN routing works better in the paid plans.

    In other words, any idea about adjusting settings to utilize both the plugin and the Pro plan to boost the website further?

    – You don’t have to adjust anything special inside the plugin settings and all pro based settings are done inside CF dashboard.

    During development with the Cloudflare development mode turning on, I, sometimes, have to manually click “purge whole cache” in order to test/see changes from, saying, incognito window. Is it normal?

    – Once the development mode is ON, CF will bypass everything for that site until you turn off the Development mode. So, there is no need for manual purge.

    Will the plugin auto deactivate itself if I open the development mode in Cloudflare?

    – No. But as I said, when development mode inside CF is on, CF will ignore the cache everything page rule.

    Can this plugin, or together with the Pro plan, help me to propagate the cache to all the nodes (data center) even though there is no visit from certain nodes? Like, don’t know if is correct, utilizing “KV” or “Worker” to propagate the cache everywhere?

    – For that you need to use CF Argo and Smart Tiered Caching which comes out of the box when you enable Argo.

    You can also read this article: https://acnam.com/untold-truths-of-cloudflare-cdn/ to understand how CF caching and CDN routing works.

    Thread Starter fredpan

    (@fredpan)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Saumya,

    Thanks for the reply.

    “During development with the Cloudflare development mode turning on, I, sometimes, have to manually click “purge whole cache” in order to test/see changes from, saying, incognito window. Is it normal?

    – Once the development mode is ON, CF will bypass everything for that site until you turn off the Development mode. So, there is no need for manual purge.”

    Sorry for misleading, I understand that while the development mode is ON, the CF will bypass everything. However, since I also turned on the fallback cache, the changed I made does not show up even the dev mode is ON untill I manually purge the cache. Correct me if I am wrong: I guess it is because the visit bypassed the CF Cache but hit the Cache on my webserver created by the plugin fallback caching feature?

    In addition, thanks for sharing me the article. Do you know if this plugin can work with BunnyCDN? I might want to try different CDN in the next few days to determine if I am going to stay with CF.

    Thanks

    Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    However, since I also turned on the fallback cache, the changed I made does not show up even the dev mode is ON untill I manually purge the cache.

    – That is right.

    Do you know if this plugin can work with BunnyCDN?

    – No it won’t. It’s for Cloudflare only. This might help though: https://www.gulshankumar.net/cache-wordpress-html-bunnycdn/

    Thread Starter fredpan

    (@fredpan)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Saumya,

    Thanks so much for the reply 🙂

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