[Dave]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Is that subjective? Or objectively and scientifically tested? Because I bet when you use a browser that hasn't cached any of your content, you'll be really disappointed at how little CF helps you.

Go to webpagetest dot org and run the tests both ways to see what I mean.His entire page only loads around 540 kb. Pretty light as it is.






Meanwhile, again to the OP - At Ozzmodz we have a vBulletin optimization forum with actual case histories and actual results, how-to, and tips.

Here.

I'm not going to scientifically test something just to prove a point. I simply checked the total loading time of all resources with and without Cloudflare (non-cached and cached versions). If your test results are different than mine then that's completely fine, but I will still be supportive of Cloudflare. On big forums every ms and saved kb matters.

Besides that I also use Cloudflare to prevent DDoS attacks (instead of buying an expensive server with DDoS protection), gaming forums are target for such attacks all the time. I used to receive attacks weekly but since I enabled Cloudflare, 2 years ago, I haven't received a single attack.

Originally Posted by HM666

Be careful with Incapsula its quite annoying and can cause problems. I've had a client that had this installed and it was a nightmare to work with and get it uninstalled.

I have 0% experience with Incapsula so I'll trust your word.

@OP: if you want to optimize some more, you could consider using memcached for vBulletin, using MariaDB instead of MySQL and nginx instead of Apache.