CloudFlare is a CDN and cache system designed to speed up websites, mitigate traffic spikes and limit the effectiveness of DDoS attacks. You may have heard of them in conjunction with the recent massive SPAMhaus DDoS attack that was largely ineffective despite being so large that it impacted Tier 1 internet providers (read about it here).
As of today, LoadingReadyRun is now also using the CloudFlare distribution network. Hopefully, the only difference you will notice is that the LRR site is loading faster and more reliably as all of the static content (images, css, javascript, etc) is being served from the closest of CloudFlare's 23 data centers spread all over the world. The only down side is that, since CloudFlare is quite aggressive in its caching, if you update your avatar, you might not see the new image for a few hours. All in all, I call that a reasonable tradeoff for faster load times across the entire site.
As with any site update, please let me know either in this thread or by email ([email protected]) if you experience any glitches or strangeness that you think might be caused by this change. Please include you Browser/OS version and ideally a screenshot of the problem.
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