Thoughts about Cloudflare?

[AbhiAgarwal]

Hey.

Any thoughts about using Cloudflare for the site? It'll help with caching and also our HTTPS issue.

I think it's a great idea. I've used it for all my projects, and it's a little overkill, but it always helps in speed (for me atleast)

[abhinayashutosh]

I use CloudFlare for my site. It's great and definitely helped speed up the
site overall.

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Abhi Agarwal [email protected]
wrote:

Hey.

Any thoughts about using Cloudflare for the site? It'll help with caching
and also our HTTPS issue.

I think it's a great idea. I've used it for all my projects, and it's a
little overkill, but it always helps in speed (for me atleast)

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[AbhiAgarwal]

@ethanresnick - good to start using this for a couple days and see how it goes?

[ethanresnick]

Yep! I don't see why not. And while you're at it, maybe you can work on some of the other performance issues too?

[AbhiAgarwal]

Perfect. I'm going to close this issue for now, and then report back as I see improvement. I'll also take a look at the other issues.

[ethanresnick]

(Just reopening it because otherwise I'll forget about it.)

[ethanresnick]

@AbhiAgarwal In pointing techatnyu.org to cloudflare, I think you accidentally broke the DNS for the Startup Week sponsorship perspectus, which was living at partner.techatnyu.org. (The DNS for that was pointing to 23.253.35.66, which is where the prospectus lives.) Can you please fix this asap! That prospectus needs to be up over the next couple weeks. Also, I'm wondering if other subdomain configurations may have been lost too? E.g. I think we were using a subdomain to show the tech@nyu women take grace hopper site. Is there any way to see what other settings may have been changed and restore them as needed?

[AbhiAgarwal]

I'm working on it now. I realized this just now too, and I'll get it fixed asap

I've moved the DNS back to namecheap for now. I'll adjust everything and then move it over. The detected settings for Cloudflare didn't manage to get all the host records, and so that didn't work well. I'll be more careful now.

Everything should be okay now - I have checked that partner is back up, and so is the grace hopper site. Everything seems like it's working fine at my end.

[ethanresnick]

Awesome! Thanks so much man! And no worries...we caught this soon enough that it wasn't a big deal at all.

Edit: partner.techatnyu.org's still not working on my end, but i assume it's going to come back soon. I'll let you know if it doesn't for some reason.

[ethanresnick]

cc @thebyrd. This issue seems to imply that we moved to cloudflare a while ago, but I guess not. Is the move totally done now? If so, I'll close this.

[thebyrd]

@ethanresnick it's done. Previously you were using namecheap's DNS

[ethanresnick]

nvm, going to open a new issue