CloudFlare : any feedback ?

[Mephivio]

Hi,

 

i'm again evaluating CloudFalre Capacities for Prestashop (1.4.8)

 

It seems to work well but i'm dispapointed for two points :

 

. no plug exists for Prestashop : IP addresses for carts are those from CloudFlare and the real ones

. admin : when you want to filter orders or to check orders or accounts on several pages, ths system doesn't work

 

Positive is the speed : my website is working 2x faster minimum

 

Team,

Do you have any other experience with CloudFlare ?

Do you know if there is a module to correct the troubles with the ip addresses ?

 

Thank sfor your feedback

 

Regards

[Mister Denial]

I'm interested in CloudFlare too and was considering signing up for an account. Could you please explain what issues you have with the cart IPs?

 

1) Do you mean the displayed IP is that of cloud flare, and not that of the shopper? That would be quite an issue for fraud prevention.

 

2) What do you mean by not being able to check orders or filter orders on several pages?

 

Regards,

 

Dan

[Trip]

There is a apache plugin to unveil the original ip adresses

https://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/Log_Files

This is working but anyway I tested cloudflare a couple of times ... now for 2 months. I noticed that the ratio of created accounts to ordes went negative although it was wise verser in the past. This might have other reasons but anyway.. yesterday I tried to login the shop as a customer and once again I was confronted with a orange cloud telling me that the service is unavaillable at the moment.

So I can not recommend using it as lost orders are no option for me. I try another setup now with cloudlare where only media files are accelerated through another domain. Pagespeed sais it is not optimal as I need another dns lookup but now mediafiles come from a cookieless domain and hopefully distributed from cloudflare. As long as cloudflare does not provide statistics when and where these service unavailable errors occur I can no longer risk to loose orders without even knowing that there are problems existing.

Best regards, trip

[Mister Denial]

Hi Trip,

 

thanks for your explanation. I completely agree, lost orders are not an option. If you would be willing to share your experience with only accelerating media files on Cloudflare, I would be much interested in your conclusion.

 

I also read somewhere that you can specify files or subfolders to be excluded by Cloudflare, have you tried excluding the cart.php and customer account files? Maybe that would avoid the error messages?

 

All the best,

 

Dan

[meccabooks]

 

. admin : when you want to filter orders or to check orders or accounts on several pages, ths system doesn't work

 

 

Any update in this matter.. I am having the same error..

[Mephivio]

add a page rule like http://www.myeshop.fr/adminxxx/*

and you will get a full access to your admin page

[Dh42]

How are you guys using cloudflare? I only use it to serve static files and don't have a problem with it.

[clayton29657]

Hello DesignHaus42 nevermind about the pm. I just double checked with my tech to make sure it is good on my page rules.

Edited November 18, 2012 by clayton29657 (see edit history)

[Mephivio]

the only pb is to know how to convert CloudFlare ip addresses in stats and orders to customer true ip addresses ...

if you have any idea ..... you're welcome