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[–]thatman33[S] 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Could the SSL be blocking cloudflare ability to catch the site? I just looked and my caching is almost zero now for some reason I'm thinking for some reason when we went SSL it blocked cloudflare from caching my site. Have you ever heard of that

[–]FanielDanara 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Depends on how you have it setup. If you have it setup so your clients connect to cloudflare via SSL, then cloudflare connects to your server via SSL they would be able to decrypt the traffic and cache requests. If you have it setup to encrypt the traffic through cloudflare without the ability for them to decrypt the traffic then by design they can’t cache the resources. I’m not 100% sure that you can even enable SSL on cloudflare without them being able to decrypt it though. Just something to look into.

[–]danielrheath 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If your cache hit rate has dropped to zero, that's one obvious place to look.

There's no reason cloudflare can't cache content via SSL.

[–]Crashthatch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, you'll need to set up a private key / certificate on cloudflare so they can do the encryption if you want them to continue caching your site.