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jon_wu | 10 years ago

Ideally, CloudFlare would allow you to route specific paths to different backends so you could just aggregate multiple services within your single domain for the fewest connections and DNS lookups.

Feels crazy but this makes me think to proxy imgix, which uses Fastly (not supporting SPDY or HTTP/2 yet), through CloudFlare. I'll just set up CNAMEs on my imgix account that are subdomains of my main domain, then add them to CloudFlare with acceleration on - but no caching (since imgix serves images by user agent). This adds an extra datacenter to datacenter hop, but hopefully that's really fast and upgrading the client to SPDY or HTTP/2 would outweigh that.

Anybody else tried something like this?

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eastdakota|10 years ago

Coming soon.

jon_wu|10 years ago

Awesome! With that + HTTP/2 server push, we'll really be flying.

We already started to proxy our S3 / CloudFront assets through our load balancer so they can be cached and served through the SPDY (now HTTP/2) CloudFlare connection. However, since we're using imgix to serve different images by device, we can't allow CloudFlare to cache.

I've set up some tests to proxy Fastly through CloudFlare and my initial tests are inconclusive as to whether the crazy extra hop is worth it. It seems that if we have tons of images, it probably will be faster, but most of our pages only load about 6 images above the fold and lazy load everything else, so that might be why the difference is negligible. I'll have to test on a page where more images download concurrently to see if 1 extra hop to get SPDY and HTTP/2 is worth it.