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Host Website And Forums On Cloudflare CDN (FREE)?

Post by war59312 » 28 Nov 2015, 23:55

Hey,

Why not host nzbget.net on CloudFlare, for free after all?

See Blog on how to get your GitHub Page hosted on CloudFlare for free with SSL (SPDY over TLS 1.2), free DNS hosting, and free IPv6.

You have to turn on the SPDY and IPv6 options manually after creating your account and adding domain.

https://www.benburwell.com/posts/config ... ersal-ssl/

This would help lower your bandwidth costs, while at the same time making your entire website much faster for everyone world wide, all for free. And IPv6 too. :D

Thanks,

Will

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Re: Host Website And Forums On Cloudflare CDN (FREE)?

Post by hugbug » 29 Nov 2015, 00:33

To my understanding Cloudflare does not offer free hosting. They offer SSL for sites hosted elsewhere but I don't see much benefits for nzbget site. In contrary that's a dependency from a firm which has nothing to do with open source.

The site is currently hosted by GitHub using their CDN.

If you can show me how to host a forum on Cloudflare for free I'm interested. The forum is currently hosted on sourceforge, what I'm willing to change but I don't know a better free service.

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Re: Host Website And Forums On Cloudflare CDN (FREE)?

Post by war59312 » 29 Nov 2015, 02:25

Correct, CloudFlare is not a website host. They host DNS for you. Basically CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy.

I understand, the whole open source thing. CloudFlare supports open source. See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-source-two-way-street/

So basically Cloudflare hosts your domain name for you.

Benefit is that everyone gets SSL for free, IPv6, and SPDY. Would make me very happy. World is going all SSL 24/7 thankfully. About time. Cant wait until browsers drop support for http. ha! That will be the day.

I know your not hosting private data on nzbget.net but still. It's free, so why not. And CloudFlare is huge.

Don't think you really need to worry about them disappearing. Lots of big sites on CloudFlare, such as stackoverflow.com and reddit.com.

About forums. Whoops. Your right. Forgot you are still on sourceforge. Unless they let you use custom DNS for the forums I guess it won't work.

That said, but it seems sourceforge does use custom DNS, since you have forum.nzbget.net? Imagine that is a DNS entry? No?

But I understand if not. Just thought I'd ask. Thanks for your time and considering it.

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Re: Host Website And Forums On Cloudflare CDN (FREE)?

Post by war59312 » 04 Dec 2015, 01:51

Now with CloudFlare you get HTTP/2 for FREE too. :D

See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-http2/

Don't mean to be an AD. Far from it. Just giving reasons to why I recommend them. I'll shut up now.

Understand if not interested.

Thanks again.

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