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• ↓ Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit
• ↓ Client A
• ↓ Client B
• ↓ My daughter’s going to college
• ↓ Watering someone else’s garden
• ↓ Re: Re: An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
• ↓ Top Alternatives to jemjabella.co.uk

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"We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get. Support isn’t always quick or knowledgeable but we rarely need it, so it’s not a massive issue. However, I’ve had two different clients on two different Cloudways products both of whom have had problems with their integrated “Cloudflare Enterprise” solution recently, so I feel obliged to moan about it (old school blogging style)."

"Client A was a brand new e-commerce build: large site, highly bespoke build with some complex third party integrations, but optimised AF👌 (Fantastic project and at some point I’ll write about it.) Hosted on a Vultr box via Cloudways Flexible."

"Client B is an inherited WooCommerce site with Elementor, Mailchimp, multiple third party plugins; usual run of the mill ‘built by a plugin jockey’ kinda site. Hosted on Cloudways Autonomous, which is designed to grow and shrink based on the needs of your site at the time."

"Within an hour of Client A’s website going live, they were hit by every scraper on the planet wanting a piece of it. We rapidly rolled out additional optimisations, cached things that weren’t already cached, implemented an atomic mutex on product filters (I hadn’t even heard of an atomic mutex prior to this) so that if multiple people loaded the same combination of filters it would pull from transients instead of rebuilding the list each time, and blocked a few repeat IPs. While that helped bring the CPU load down a smidgen, it was ultimately fruitless as the scrapers just rolled through a another batch of IPs and changed crawl behaviour to bypass blockers, overwhelming the site and bringing it down."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for jemjabella.co.uk:

Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit

Client A

Client B

My daughter’s going to college

Watering someone else’s garden

Re: Re: An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop