[8guawong]

hi say i have www.blah.com added to cloudflare
and my sv_downloadurl is set to http://www.blah.com/csgo

how would i setup cloudfare so players can still d/l from fastdl

[nosoop]

You proxy www.blah.com in CloudFlare so HTTP requests are redirected through their servers.

The alternative, if you don't want www.blah.com to point to CloudFlare, is to set up a subdomain such as fastdl.blah.com and proxy that.

[YunaJung]

CloudFlare has Hong Kong edge where nearest place for your server.

BUT....
I run Korea server and stopped CloudFlare, because some people have bad connection at CloudFlare, they have 50KB/s speed and seems it does not correct edge selection for Asia region, It is very often.

[8guawong]

not sure if i got it working by luck, but after turning off cloudflare for CNAME www, clients can d/l through the fastdl url!

attached is my setting under the DNS tab

[DarkDeviL]

CNAME's wont go through CloudFlare in their Free tier. You will need their Business or Enterprise for that ("Full oroxy" mode).

The way to do it on the Free tier is to make each individual record be an A (or AAAA for IPv6) to the IP address instead, assuming that your goal is to go over CloudFlare.

blah.com A 1.2.3.4
www.blah.com A 1.2.3.4
fastdl.blah.com A 1.2.3.4

And then make sure the cloud is orange, not grey.

You (or your hosting provider) will also need to configure the fastdl.blah.com subdomain name in your web servers configuration.

[Jillchang]

Originally Posted by YunaJung CloudFlare has Hong Kong edge where nearest place for your server. BUT.... I run Korea server and stopped CloudFlare, because some people have bad connection at CloudFlare, they have 50KB/s speed and seems it does not correct edge selection for Asia region, It is very often.

Anyone else have experience with cloudflare's CDN?
I used it but stopped using it since I was afraid of some players being affected by their CDN (some seem to be getting missing maps).

[DarkDeviL]

Originally Posted by Jillchang Anyone else have experience with cloudflare's CDN? I used it but stopped using it since I was afraid of some players being affected by their CDN (some seem to be getting missing maps).

If CloudFlare tries to connect to your Origin, and your Origin is down (or somehow the connectivity between CloudFlare and your Origin is down), then people will have missing maps, missing materials/models, ... etc.

It will work like that everywhere when you run through a CDN (CloudFlare or whatever provider), and that the connectivity, e.g. between the CDN and your Origin is (tempoarily) unavailable.

I have used both CloudFlare and other CDN providers without any issues at all.

[sigerman]

My experience with cloudflare:
The sv_downloadurl of my page started to fail (archives not being downloaded). So, I created a subdomain (eg manaos.sabe.com) and deactivate the protection in it (the icon in orange in the page of cloudflare, I turned into gray in the case of the subdomain of course). Risky, but It works. Hope my text helps.

[Jillchang]

yea i dont think cloudflare cdn works for fastdownload purposes since I think they only cdn certain static file types (not including zipped files).