Cloudflare & Litespeed Server question

[ycevents]

Hi. We have a choice between to companies for our international server. 1 has litespeed and one doesnt but is much cheaper. The question is, if I am going to be using Cloudflare on all the domains, will I still really need Litespeed since Cloudflare has a CDN in South Africa as well and when I tested some sites on it I get on average 35ms latency and I heard Cloudflare anyways loads / caches a whole bunch of stuff onto it's servers.

 

[WAslayer]

Cloudflare will cache static content.. it cannot cache dynamic content or anything where the browser request requires backend processing to display a result etc.. this is where a fast backend would offer a great advantage..

It comes down to how much dynamic content you have and how much of your site relies on backend processing to display webpages..

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

What type of site is being hosted?
If it’s a site that litespeed has a caching plugin for then I would opt for the host that provides litespeed.

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[ycevents]

Thank you so basically it's better to have a local host combination with litespeed as first option and international host combination with litespeed and with cloudflare as second option correct?

Or will the best option would be to have a local server + cloudflare + litespeed?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Thank you so basically it's better to have a local host combination with litespeed as first option and international host combination with litespeed and with cloudflare as second option correct?

Or will the best option would be to have a local server + cloudflare + litespeed?

Where is the majority of your site traffic originating from? If it’s local then host local and use cloudflare or look into quic cdn - there is a thread on the forum about it

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Here's the link to the quic cdn thread

Seeking QUIC CDN testers

An updated version of QUIC has been deployed and we are currently seeking testers to try out the Cape Town based QUIC CDN node. Free accounts are available for up to 20GB of traffic per month. According to the QUIC developers the CDN will be production ready by Q2 2020. We would be very...

mybroadband.co.za

 

[WAslayer]

Thank you so basically it's better to have a local host combination with litespeed as first option and international host combination with litespeed and with cloudflare as second option correct?

Or will the best option would be to have a local server + cloudflare + litespeed?

What is percentage split of dynamic versus static content for your website..?

You want as low latency as possy, to improve user experience.. cloudflare is local, so irrespective of where your host is located, static content will be cached and served locally by cloudflare.. however, anything that cannot be cached, will be sent to the host and of that is international, you will have higher latency..

So, if your site is majority static content, you can host international and use cloudflare to cache static content locally.. if it is majority dynamic, you would want to host locally as well..

 

[ycevents]

Where is the majority of your site traffic originating from? If it’s local then host local and use cloudflare or look into quic cdn - there is a thread on the forum about it

Thank you. If I am hosting local with lite speed and 100% of my traffic is coming from South Africa, will cloudflare really make a difference? Thank you I will look at the link you are very helpful.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Thank you. If I am hosting local with lite speed and 100% of my traffic is coming from South Africa, will cloudflare really make a difference? Thank you I will look at the link you are very helpful.

Give CF and Quic a try and decide which works better for you, both are free

 

[ycevents]

Quic looks promising thanks! It's a site similar to takealot we are doing already got 124 suppliers on my database ready to launch their products (I know it's a baby compared to takealot). Quic says they also do Dynamic so that is interesting how it will work since how would they guess common search terms. Perhaps they would just spider through the site somehow. But I'm sure with a litespeed local server I won't even need anything else! So hard to decide 3 good choices we have so far hmmmm. Thank you everyone for the help.

 

[Murmaider]

Thank you. If I am hosting local with lite speed and 100% of my traffic is coming from South Africa, will cloudflare really make a difference? Thank you I will look at the link you are very helpful.

It won't make a noticeable speed difference , especially is you making use of the litespeed cache.
Litespeed itself supports the quic protocol out the box, you don't specifically need the QUIC CDN for that.

However, what cloudflare does provide you is protection against attacks directed towards your website.

Dave @ Domains.co.za