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by serentty 1518 days ago
I think I have CloudFlare on, and I am seeing requests with a CloudFlare header, but I am still getting a huge amount of traffic. I am not sure what the issue is. Maybe the site is so busy that CloudFlare can’t even load it to cache it, haha. Anyway, I have to leave for an exam now, so let’s hope it manages to work itself out.
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Changing to cloud flare probably meant updating your dns settings. Based on the TTL of the record and clients respecting it, the change can take a while (up to days even) to spread around the world.
I do believe you have to actually set some headers on your origin HTTP server, to tell the CF caches how long to cache for.