USWildflowers.com Journal
Reports on Gerry Williamson's Wildflower Hobby
Wildflower Journal
Wildflower: A flowering plant that grows without cultivation.This is a journal of my discovery of wildflowers, which not only will provide my memory (since the biological memory is failing more and more,) but also can be a valuable record as to when certain wildflowers will be in bloom.
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CDN Experiment Ending for Now
Posted on March 11th, 2011 2 commentsAs mentioned in a previous post, I started using Cloudflare Content Distribution Network on Feb 3 in the hope of getting improved performance, and to lower the load on my hosting account. I’m calling this a failed experiment.
After a 5-hour partial outage of USWildflowers.com this morning, I changed DNS back over to “normal,” taking traffic directly to the website rather than through Cloudflare.
I had not seen an improvement in performance based on Google Webmaster statistics. I assume that Cloudflare’s statistics were correct in that they were taking a significant part of the load off of the host (HostGator) but when weighing the risk of outage using Cloudflare vs Hostgator getting overloaded, I decided to use the sure-thing of experience (site was down on Cloudflare) vs the “maybe” that Hostgator will sanction me for overuse of their resources.
2 responses to “CDN Experiment Ending for Now”
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Sorry this didn’t work out, but thanks for sharing your experience. I’m sure others have thought about trying such things (I might with Amazon’s CloudFront) and all data points/lessons learned help.
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This might be on the “you get what you pay for” page. Cloudflare is a free service. I wasn’t aware of Amazon CloudFront; I’ll take a look. Thanks, Adam.
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Adam Jack March 11th, 2011 at 13:43