Setup CloudFlare

[brandonwamboldt]

See my blog article for reasons why: https://brandonwamboldt.ca/why-you-should-use-cloudflare-1315/

The base plan is free and will significantly reduce bandwidth costs, increase availability, reduce download times, etc etc. If you guys want, I'll happily donate the pro plan ($20/month), just reach out to me directly to coordinate (brandon.wamboldt@gmail.com). If you guys decide to go with the free plan, still let me know if you need any help getting it setup.

[sebneira]

I would consider the idea for static files as images and js -- but as far as using CDNs for the mod files, I'm not really sure about that. My concerns are the following:

• Size
• People's files being elsewhere
• Little to no control over the distribution

Another concern I'm having is that traffic is directed through cloudflare, which makes me want to shiver. How safe is that? How much and what type of info are they taking in return? (this concern might apply to using stuff like google analytics, but probably even worse!)

Let me know if I'm mistaken at some point, as I've only used Akamai for images in the past and my lack of experience might not be helping here.

[ghost]

On the upside, we get fast-ish servers all over the world, which will make both Australian KSP players happy.

[brandonwamboldt]

@sikian One of the benefits of CloudFlare is you host the files on your server and CloudFlare transparently caches that for a configurable TTL.

Also I advise you to look into CloudFlare, as they seem to be a genuinely "good" company. They make their money from bigger customers. They don't snoop on traffic. They introduced a free SSL program so any site they host can get SSL setup. CloudFlare is used by a ton of huge websites (e.g. Reddit, Voat, etc).

CloudFlare does have analytics of course, similar to what Google Analytics offers. However, they aren't an advertising company, so I'd trust them more.

CloudFlare is also very involved in the community (e.g. they are a prominent player in web security) and recently took over maintaining LuaJIT.

[sebneira]

@brandonwamboldt sounds pretty good, I'll take a look!

I'm pretty sure the team is up for Cloudflare on the website :)

[GenPage]

Can confirm we use CloudFlare at DigitalOcean. Great team and service. 👍

[ghost]

+1 For CloudFlare