We have a customer who will be featured on a national TV program, and we expect a huge bump in users. We’ve increased bandwidth for the month, but the Treepl team also recommended utilizing Cloudfare or another CDN solution.
Are any of you doing this? What does this look like? What gets moved to Cloudfare?
We are already pulling Foundation and JQuery from CDN libraries.
Thanks,
Shannon
Hi @shannonlynd
I use Cloudflare for most of my sites, but the typical usage is not so much a direct CDN - where you’d store online assets (although it can be as well) - but rather a proxy for the DNS (routing of web traffic) and management of asset caching and security.
So, by pointing the domain name to Cloudflare and configuring the DNS records there, Cloudflare can better manage and route traffic volumes and serve cached assets from their network rather than Treepl’s server.
There are also further optimisations Cloudflare can do for your site to optimise network load and there are more advanced tools available with their paid services as well.
Maybe a good topic for a Treehouse meeting 
Similar situation. Client sends out weekly newsletter with links to their site on Treepl at 10 AM every Wednesday. Almost immediately, newsletter lands in 18,000 inboxes and, within minutes, there are 4,000 opens and 2,000 hits on website. Then site crashes. Treepl advises as follows.
“The site exceeded its memory quota due to the number of connections, went down and then restarted. We assume a dedicated server or CDN service like Cloudflare may suffice here.”
Client unwilling to assume cost of dedicated server. So, Cloudflare CDN or Proxy look like best options. Is one better than the other for Treepl sites?