This is the first I've heard of it but I'm actually giving it a try right now as it looks incredibly interesting! Looks like it could take a good 24 hours for the change in the nameservers but I'll see what I can find on this once that goes through!
Hopefully others around here have some experience or thoughts on this too. Anyone?
Dustin, i think you need to change the nameservers. when you login to your accaount on cloudflare you follow the instruvtion there and at the end they will give you the new nameservers for me my site is much faster now :)
So will cloudflare work with multi-site setups? I don't know if it will work because of the wildcard subdomain issue. Has anyone figured out if it will work with wildcard subdomains? I can see how it can work with separate sites, but if the sites are part of a network where users create new sites, how would that work?
Each domain would need to be added separately to CloudFlare.
With the wildcard subdomains, you would need to define the subdomains in your CloudFlare DNS settings for the primary domain.
You may be limited to the amount of subdomains that you can add in cloudflare, so the wildcard may not be an option.
The premium ClouldFlare account may allow for unlimited subdomains which would support the wildcard,
We currently can support the wildcard entry *, but we can't proxy those subdomains without you explicitly defining the subdomains in your DNS settings. You would have to add username.sitename.com as a record in your DNS settings, for example.
> So will cloudflare work with multi-site setups? I don't know if it will work
> because of the wildcard subdomain issue.
You just need to add each website to your CloudFlare account separately. Not an ideal situation if you already have hundreds of websites, but this allows you to test CloudFlare on a few sites before rolling it out to all sites.
My argument is that we really don't need wildcard DNS.
Instead, all we need is for someone to make a plugin that pings CloudFlare whenever a new blog is registered and saves the new sub-domain name in the main CloudFlare account automatically.
Another cool integration would be a "sync with CloudFlare" button in the WP Network Admin, for pre-existing sites.
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WPMU DEV Fanatic — 14th October 2011 #
Hi Dustin,
This is the first I've heard of it but I'm actually giving it a try right now as it looks incredibly interesting! Looks like it could take a good 24 hours for the change in the nameservers but I'll see what I can find on this once that goes through!
Hopefully others around here have some experience or thoughts on this too. Anyone?
-David
Member — 14th October 2011 #
David
So do you have to change the nameservers? I think I got mine set up without doing anything like that...
Dustin
Lifetime Member — 14th October 2011 #
Hiya,
We tested before,if you are using single wordpress that's good.But I don't recommend for multiple sites.
You can read this
Cheers,
Member — 14th October 2011 #
Dustin, i think you need to change the nameservers. when you login to your accaount on cloudflare you follow the instruvtion there and at the end they will give you the new nameservers for me my site is much faster now :)
Member — 16th October 2011 #
Hello
So will cloudflare work with multi-site setups? I don't know if it will work because of the wildcard subdomain issue. Has anyone figured out if it will work with wildcard subdomains? I can see how it can work with separate sites, but if the sites are part of a network where users create new sites, how would that work?
Dustin
Lifetime Member — 16th October 2011 #
I tried before,but didn't work for wildcard :/
Member — 16th October 2011 #
Hi,
Each domain would need to be added separately to CloudFlare.
With the wildcard subdomains, you would need to define the subdomains in your CloudFlare DNS settings for the primary domain.
You may be limited to the amount of subdomains that you can add in cloudflare, so the wildcard may not be an option.
The premium ClouldFlare account may allow for unlimited subdomains which would support the wildcard,
Member — 16th October 2011 #
So does this mean that once I add my main domain to cloudflare, that any subdomains created won't work until I manually enter them into cloudflare?
Dustin
Member — 16th October 2011 #
exactly you need to login to your account on cloudfare and add your domains and follow the instructions there.
Member — 16th October 2011 #
but do you think it will work to use cloudflare for the main domain, but not the subdomains?
Member — 17th October 2011 #
yes i think it should work with the main domain, i think you should ask cloudfare regarding subdomain as i ma not really sure about it.
Lifetime Member — 17th October 2011 #
Today,I asked cloudflare for the wildcard domain for pro account.I'm waiting answer.
I will let know here ;)
Cheers.
Lifetime Member — 17th October 2011 #
Mail received,
I hope that's helpful.
Cheers,
Member — 19th October 2011 #
> So will cloudflare work with multi-site setups? I don't know if it will work
> because of the wildcard subdomain issue.
You just need to add each website to your CloudFlare account separately. Not an ideal situation if you already have hundreds of websites, but this allows you to test CloudFlare on a few sites before rolling it out to all sites.
Member — 3rd January 2012 #
There is also some discussion about CloudFlare with Wildcard DNS (which is necessary for Multisite)
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-cloudflare-plugin-wp-multisite-compatible?replies=7
My argument is that we really don't need wildcard DNS.
Instead, all we need is for someone to make a plugin that pings CloudFlare whenever a new blog is registered and saves the new sub-domain name in the main CloudFlare account automatically.
Another cool integration would be a "sync with CloudFlare" button in the WP Network Admin, for pre-existing sites.
Member — 14th January 2012 #
and you found that someone who coded excactly what you needed...
it will be avail in an hour on http://themetailors.com
Cheers!
Member — 15th January 2012 #
TT CloudFlare WPMU Plugin will be avail in a couple of days. We just have to solve a probelm with paypal x.com to sell it thru Marketpress... :S
Member — 16th January 2012 #
Here's the TT CloudFlare WPMU Plugin
Let me know what you think!
Paolo
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