App for Cloudflare® Pro 1.9.2

[klalaounis]

Hello, im using app for cloudflare.
Do i need to also use a caching plugin for the server side?
I mean app for cloudflare is caching into cloudflare datacenters. I have cloudflare pro.
When a request to origin server is made, would it make sense to serve the cache that the origin has or having only the app for cloudflare is enought?
Because i see from some curls that when a cache miss the server has 4s response time(propably because there is no cache on it) and i dont know why(its a VPS with 4gb ram)

 

[digitalpoint]

It certainly is something to consider if WordPress is taking ~4s to generate a page. Personally, I don't, but my sites tend to be lightweight/fast so they definitely aren't taking that long for the origin to spit them out.

You may want to double check if you have Cloudflare's Smart Tiered Caching Topology option enabled (under Caching tab of the settings). That won't decrease the time it takes your origin to generate a page, but it will make the cached page spread out to multiple Cloudflare data centers without needing to go back to the origin as often.

Your origin is still going to need to generate pages at *some* point (using a origin server cache or not), so the better long-term solution in my mind is to figure out where the bottleneck is on the origin side. Of course that's not always simple though.

But to answer your question, you don't *need* a origin cache plugin (and I don't use one for my sites), but it certainly can use one if it's needed in your setup.

 

[klalaounis]

Thank you very much for the answer 🙂 i will try to see the bottleneck because i dont even have images.