Cloudflare Tips: Using Cloudflare for your forums

Damon Billian attended ForumCon in San Francisco where he learned that forums require real-time comment posting and connection capabilities to maintain a vibrant community. This often leads to challenges with spam, fake accounts, and managing traffic spikes. CloudFlare offers protection against these issues by preventing forum spammers and attackers while ensuring the site stays online during high traffic periods. Before joining CloudFlare, it is recommended to inform the community about the upcoming changes and potential challenge pages they may encounter. After joining, reviewing Top Tips blog post can help with understanding key features and settings. Customizing the CloudFlare challenge page and using Threat Control are also beneficial for maintaining a secure forum environment.