[Box-Admins] Squeak.org nameserver stuff

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 29.01.2016, at 08:52, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 29.01.2016, at 05:22, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Tobias Pape wrote:
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>>>> People have expressed interest in that, and I went forth and
>>>
>>> Who?
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>> - Fabio, who did this exact thing to his website.
>> - Marcel
>> - Bert
>> - Craig also seemed to like it.
>
> I don’t think “express interest” is the same as “let’s do it” but more like “let’s discuss” ;)
>
> In general, I think it’s preferable to reduce our admin load, and if something can be easily managed by someone else that’s a good thing. So if by using cloudflare we get https for free that’s a good thing, provided there are no significant downsides (which we need to discuss).
>
> However, IIUC cloudflare would not really work to accelerate our downloads since .zip files are not cached?
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> https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-What-file-extensions-does-CloudFlare-cache-for-static-content-
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> Or did I misunderstand?

It might be possible to do it, because you get 3 Page Rules[1] with the 
free plan[2]. But cloudflare may still refuse to cache them.

Levente

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pagerules-advanced-caching/
[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

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> - Bert -
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