<story><title>Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/09/22/google-microsoft-qualcomm-and-baidu-announce-joint-investment-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>If your website is well-coded and administered, does CloudFlare offer any performance benefit?  (leaving aside security for now)&lt;p&gt;If a page is static, then CloudFlare can cache it.  But if you set your cache headers appropriately, and use efficient serving code like nginx, I imagine serving static content is pretty darn cheap.&lt;p&gt;If a page is dynamic, then how can CloudFlare really speed it up?  You don&amp;#x27;t want them serving stale pages to users.  So it has to hit your server every time, in which case the user might as well hit your server.  In that case, I don&amp;#x27;t really see how CloudFlare improves things.&lt;p&gt;Am I misunderstanding how CloudFlare works?  It seems like if you follow typical performance tips like [1] then most of CloudFlare&amp;#x27;s benefit is eliminated.&lt;p&gt;I guess [1] does tell you to use a CDN.  You can save end user network latency for cached static pages, since they cache them in multiple geographic locations.  But if you have a simple site with 1 .js and 1 .css file per page, and compress and minify everything, I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s worth it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0596529309&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0596529309&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2015/09/22/google-microsoft-qualcomm-and-baidu-announce-joint-investment-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nux</author><text>Welcome to the Cloudflare-net.&lt;p&gt;Half the internet is behind CloudFlare now. Since they can&amp;#x27;t easily &amp;quot;own&amp;quot; the Internet, they could as well own CloudFlare.&lt;p&gt;Not impressed and I hate all this hiding behind Cloudflare and other proxy services; most of the cases are just hipster&amp;#x2F;hype powered, rather than in actual need.</text></comment>