What is Cloudflare and how can I speed it up?

[Nikokaro]

Would anyone be able to tell me what Cloudflare (DdoS protection) is and how it works precisely? I understand that it checks my browser, but what specifically? The history, cache, stored data? But above all: why in my case the control lasts more or less ten minutes, while for others a few seconds? And still this morning I couldn't access here in any way. In my case, I use Android Chrome on Smartphone or Tablet,
if you need to know.
Thanks.

 

[linuxares]

It checks a lot of things. But normal it just takes like max 10 secs. Try clearing the cache on the browser.

 

[Nikokaro]

Thanks @linuxares. Unfortunately, in the cache I have important data like passwords for this and other more important sites that (stupidly) I didn't note down, and don't remember anymore. Can you, or anyone else, tell me what part I can delete of the cached data without being logged out of the various sites where I'm registered?

 

[Chary]

Don't know how to fix the issue, sorry, but Cloudflare afaik won't be permanent. It's just to help the site not get ganked for now.

 

[Nikokaro]

Thanks @Chary. Knowing that it is temporary comforts me...

 

[RocaBOT]

Application cache on android is a finicky thing. Look at the options inside your app (and not the ones in the Android settings) to see if you can delete browsing cache alone (instead of the whole "app cache" like in the Android settings), since that would be the same as content cache on desktop browsers (hence not containing passwords).
On an other note, there may even be a page in the options of your browser to see the stored passwords, so you can save them somewhere more secure, maybe check it out just in case that exists (as it does on desktop browsers)

 

[CoolMe]

It only 5 seconds max for me to load on mobile.

 

[Nikokaro]

Thank you both. I'll look in Chrome's options to see if there's actually a page containing stored passwords, but I doubt that's the case: if I find them, I'll annotate them and then clear the entire cache.

 

[InsaneNutter]

If you don't remember your passwords for more important website you have a problem, as sooner or later your cookies will expire and you will be logged out. I'd make a point of updating those passwords while you can.

 

[Cyan]

I'll rant here too!

I had issues loading gbatemp yesterday from my phone. It checked, and checked, and checked loop for 10 minutes.
It worked when using wifi, but didn't when using Phone Data connection. it eventually let me see it after 10 minutes, but if I'm not home I don't have wifi available.

Plus, on computer since gbatemp uses cloudflare, I often get page loaded twiced when I click on a link, so I have to "go back twice" to return to previous page :/

 

[Nikokaro]

Thank you both. @Cyan, as you can see, the exact same thing happened to me, yesterday I couldn't get into the site until late in the evening, and after 12 minutes of Cloudflare checking my browser. This morning the same thing. I take comfort that I'm not the only one.

 

[Nikokaro]

@RocaBOT, you were right! There is a page in Chrome that stores passwords, username and linked site. I copied all of them down. Now I might as well delete the browser cache, which is what's causing the problems. All these informations was helpful, but I think I'll give the points to you in the end. For now, I'll wait.

 

[Thesolcity]

Your browser cache shouldn't contain the passwords. That would be an autofill thing....

You can clear the cache without deleting your saved passwords.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Maybe try a different browser

 

[RocaBOT]

Very glad to hear your browser was advanced enough to have that separate page to retrieve your stored information, it should be a norm but definitely is missing in some cases. I hope that helps with cloudflare while the website is forced to use that (and also hoping we'll get better solutions soon, I know too well that web/IT admin tasks are not the easiest, and finding the best solution and putting it in place can be long and time consuming. Best of luck to the staff working on that <3)

@Thesolcity the thing is he's using an android-powered device, so web browsers are sometimes not well designed on there, and the system has an "application cache" system that stores all the local user data of the app, so if he was to clean that instead of the in-browser content cache, he'd have deleted all the user data of his browser - including saved passwords and cookies!

 

[Uiaad]

I entered this thread expecting an 80's style standup routine ... I leave .... disappointed

 

[Nikokaro]

Thank you to all participants. I would have gladly given several likes, but I see that is not possible in this section...Settle for a virtual handshake [wink].

 

[Deleted member 514389]

Why does gbatemp suddenly need this anyhow ?

 

[Nikokaro]

@notrea11y, as shaunj66 wrote yesterday on my profile: "Yes we enabled extra security on the server due to ongoing attacks"

 

[Nikokaro]

Important:
Before clearing all the cache on my smartphone, I tried to connect here on my tablet, after completely clearing its Chrome cache. To my surprise and disappointment, it still took several minutes to let me in.
So it seems to be a problem with Android Chrome, independent of the size of the cache to check!
And as I read in the recent thread in the Discussions and Suggestions section, it also affects Android Firefox. At this point I'm waiting for other solutions...