Signed up for a free account with CloudFlare (http://www.cloudflare.com/) in order to speed up page load times of our website. Seems like a great tool. However they limit file uploads to 50MB. We have a file upload Gravity Form on the website (http://www.stillcreekpress.com/resources/file-uploads/) for our clients to transfer files to us with a cap of around 250MB. In their knowledge-base, CloudFlare suggests making a subdomain and putting such an app there. Then set the subdomain to bypass CloudFlare's distribution network. How best to do that if we want to continue to have the form reside on our website? Could this just mean changing the file upload path that Gravity Forms uses?
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Using a file uploads form with CloudFlare CDN.
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Posted 11 years ago on Thursday August 23, 2012 | Permalink
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I'm not sure that I know exactly everything that needs to go into this.
Looks like you have a Gravity Form online now. Anything submitted there would go through CloudFlare, but they limit uploads to 50MB and you allow clients to send you files up to 250MB with this form? Beyond 250MB, you direct them to an FTP site after they contact you?
Sounds like you can have a subdomain in your settings at CloudFlare which will bypass their network, so files between 50MB and 250MB can still use this form, but will bypass CloudFlare?
Is that a good summary?
Does CloudFlare work fine for you now for files under 50MB? But file uploads between 50MB and 250 when submitted with this form fail due to the CloudFlare restriction on file size? Or is there more to it than that?
Posted 11 years ago on Sunday August 26, 2012 | Permalink
