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    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      5 years ago

      Look who came out of the shadows. :)

       

      Jay wrote:

      Thanks for the heads up!

       

      -Jay

       

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    5 years ago

    that's actually very bad for several reasons. Now I'm unsure what Cloudflare is actually caching with testmy and how they calculate it.

     

    Since Cloudflare's network is distributed, I'm also unsure what selecting a testmy server location actually does, if anything, since you're really just talking to Cloudflare, not testmy...

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      5 years ago

      Well, that doesn't sound good at all. 

       

      MarkJFine wrote:

      that's actually very bad for several reasons. Now I'm unsure what Cloudflare is actually caching with testmy and how they calculate it.

       

      Since Cloudflare's network is distributed, I'm also unsure what selecting a testmy server location actually does, if anything, since you're really just talking to Cloudflare, not testmy...

       

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      5 years ago

      Interestingly, I can ping the testmy server just fine.

      • MarkJFine's avatar
        MarkJFine
        Professor
        5 years ago

        Cloudflare acts as the server-in-the-loop and nameserver. It reroutes/caches only webserver type actions: Images, css, and executable javascript (or php) code; and only when addressed through the *testmy.com domain. Anything other than http or https activity just gets passed through, such as pings and (s)ftps. They also won't handle any access that is direct via IP which bypasses them and goes directly to the original webserver.