Folks,
For the past few months we've been testing, for the forums only, a third-party caching and proxying service that provides additional security and performance for Web sites called Cloudflare.
I've heard sporadic reports of errors, timeouts, and other performance issues from some of you, however I've never experienced it myself and all our monitoring tools indicate terrific performance from Cloudflare and the forums in general.
However, that doesn't mean there isn't a potential problem.
One thing I've noticed is that Cloudflare has had some peering issues with some ISPs, which means that some of you on some ISPs might be experiencing issues while others (like myself and our monitoring tools) aren't seeing any issues. Cloudflare is a relativity new startup service that we are evaluating and will continue to evaluate. i'm going to reach out to them to provide your feedback.
Thanks for the reports, and we're sorry if you are experiencing poor performance from the forums. We are looking in to the your reports.
Thanks,