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Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by Charlie Morgenthaler

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Comment on A less broken GrowlTunes by Chris Forsythe

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Comment on Enabling keyboard shortcuts with NSStatusItems by Ernst Cline

Ernst Cline — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:49:33 +0000

The easiest way I found around this problem is just putting some NSButton Objects on the layout, give them the appropriate Key Equivalent in the editor and hook ‘m up to the corresponding inputs from First Responder.
After checking that everything works as expected make them transparent, non bordered and change the size to 0 by 0 pixels.

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Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by James

James — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:51:36 +0000

I was also interested in CF before reading this - my goal is to improve speed of the site, i dont care about them improving my security if it means users , even single potential visitor, is going to be turned off by captcha.

there is no way we would use such service if it means these “security” features cant be turned off… i understand that for enterprise users this might be important, but for vast majority, it is not.

Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by Jan Husdal

Jan Husdal — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:30:41 +0000

Hi John and thanks for sharing your story. My experience with CloudFlare are somewhat similar: When measuring after running my site through CloudFlare some resources seem to hang, while others load superfast, meaning that gauging by site metrics, CloudFlare actually slows my site down. That said, visually it did appear faster. Also and like you not so happy with the challenge page I decided to try a competing service, Incapsula, and was pleasantly surprised, as you can read here:

http://www.husdal.com/2011/07/01/incapsula-versus-cloudflare/

CloudFlare is a good product, but like many startups, perhaps they’re growing too fast and making to many tweaks to satisfy the desires of all sorts of new customers (in order to grow even more)…while talking the talk (yes, there has been plenty of CloudFlare press and Internet coverage lately), but lagging a bit behind on walking the walk.

I liked CloudFlare when I first tried it, I have to admit that, but in the end, and seeing what others have to offer, I decided not to stay on that bandwagon.

Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by John

John — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:26:34 +0000

Damon - No, more control over the challenge page would not make a difference for me.

I realize that improving web site security is a large part of your offering and that’s an interesting point about reducing load by filtering malicious traffic to my site. I would still filter out known malicious traffic, but refuse to serve the site at all if a known bad IP tries to connect. You could obviously only do this for IPs you were certain were bad. From my perspective, if a user has to enter a captcha to see my site then 90% of the time they aren’t going to bother.

Imagine you do a Google search and find my site - you click on it in the search results and a page comes up showing some kind of security roadblock page that wants you to enter a captcha. Do you play silly games with the site or do you immediately hit your browsers back button and click another result? I know what I would do. Unless they’re really desperate, there’s noway a user is going to bother entering a captcha and I’ve lost a potential customer.

It just feels like you’re breaking my website for questionable gain. Your security measures shouldn’t also punish legitimate users.

I would like to hear if you do manage to debug and resolve the issues I was having.

Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by Damon Billian

Damon Billian — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:13:55 +0000

“I think you should have an option to disable the whole captcha thing altogether. In my case I was looking to improve the performance of my site and did not need or want security features such as this.”

The closest thing we have right now is ‘Essentially Off’. The tricky thing is that security actually is quite connected to performance as well, since we’re filtering potentially malicious traffic before it actually hits your site (can save on requests, for example).

Would having more control over the challenge page be better for you? We’re making a ton of changes in the next few weeks or so that should address many of the concerns.

Just had to check on the performance issues re: beta features (could be a contributing factor). Again, I do apologize that we haven’t had the resources (just yet) to take a deeper look at that particular case. It requires some engineering digging & it might take more than just a few days to figure out what is going on.

Comment on My experiences with CloudFlare by Antonin Hildebrand

Antonin Hildebrand — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:45:54 +0000

I’m using CloudFlare on my site and I’m also only interested in the performance improvement.

There is similar startup TorBit currently in beta which does just performance. I’ve tried them, but we hit technical issue in my code, so I switched to CloudFlare.
http://torbit.com