rammichael

<p>From the Cloudflare Support website:</p>
<p>Q: Why do my server logs show Cloudflare’s IPs using Cloudflare?</p>
<p>A: When you sign on to Cloudflare the way your logs are displayed will change because Cloudflare<br />
   acts as a proxy. This means that your visitors are routed through the Cloudflare network. This<br />
   allows Cloudflare to stop attacks before they reach your network. It also allows Cloudflare to<br />
   speed up page load time by more efficiently routing packets and, more importantly, caching<br />
   static resources (images, javascript, css, etc.) on a very fast connection. However, as a<br />
   result, the connecting IP will always come from the Cloudflare network.</p>
<p>As a result, commenters’ IP will also be masked by Cloudflare. Luckily, Cloudflare sends the real<br />
user’s IP in a separate header. This plugin saves it, as well as the user’s geo-location (also<br />
provided by Cloudflare), and displays this information in the admin panel.</p>
<p>Note that when the blog is served directly to the internet (not through Cloudflare), anyone can<br />
spoof any IP address and geo-location by specifying any value in the request headers.</p>


Real IP and Geo for Cloudflare

The plugin saves and displays visitors' real IP and location, instead of Cloudflare's.

Thomas Audunhus

Servebolt

Robert Sæther

Andrew Killen

erlendeide

<p>The Servebolt Optimizer plugin adds functionality to implement Servebolt’s best practices for WordPress. This includes database optimizations, errorlog review, automatic cache purging, automatic image optimization and resizing, performance recommendations, and support for down stream HTML caching.</p>
<p>Specifically, Servebolt Optimizer does two things for your site:</p>
<ol>
<li>It connects your <a href="https://servebo.lt/e3ke3" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress hosted</a> or <a href="https://servebo.lt/724lz" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce hosted</a> Servebolt site to your <a href="https://servebo.lt/pf3hu" rel="nofollow ugc">Servebolt Admin Panel</a>.</li>
<li>Its features implement Servebolt’s best practices for performance. These best practizes include database optimizations, error log review, automatic cache purging, automatic image optimization/resizing, performance recommendations and support for down stream HTML caching.</li>
</ol>
<p>This project is maintained on <a href="https://servebo.lt/sog" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Configures HTML caching to speed up your site (<strong>Servebolt clients only</strong>)</li>
<li>Integrates with <a href="https://servebo.lt/4c9dw" rel="nofollow ugc">Accelerated Domains</a> (<strong>Servebolt clients only</strong>)</li>
<li>Rewrite headers to allow down stream HTML caching (<strong>Servebolt clients only</strong>)</li>
<li>View Apache/PHP error log (<strong>Servebolt clients only</strong>)</li>
<li>Database optimization – Convert tables to InnoDB</li>
<li>Database optimization – Add performance improving indexes</li>
<li>Automatic cache purge for Cloudflare and Accelerated Domains</li>
<li>Recommendations on additional performance improvements</li>
<li>Multi-site support</li>
<li>WP CLI support</li>
<li>Cloudflare Image Resize-support (beta feature)</li>
<li>WP Rocket compatability (<strong>Servebolt clients only</strong>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Read more about the plugin and all its features in our <a href="https://servebo.lt/servebolt-optimize-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Help Center</a>.</p>
<h3>Accelerated Domains</h3>
<p>The integration with our revolutionairy add-on performance and security enhancing service <a href="https://servebo.lt/4c9dw" rel="nofollow ugc">Accelerated Domains</a> is made possible by Servebolt Optimizer. Installing the Servebolt Optimizer will provide the required HTTP headers to make use of Accelerated Domains.</p>
<h3>Automatic purge of Cloudflare cache</h3>
<p>Servebolt Optimizer supports the most complete solution for Cloudflare cache purging. The HTML Cache is automatically purged when any post type or term has been updated. You can also purge directly from the admin bar. This Cloudflare integration supports both the use of API key and API token authentication when communicating with the Cloudflare API.</p>
<h3>HTML Caching</h3>
<p>This plugin rewrites HTTP headers of HTML to allow for HTML Caching, and for the browser to cache HTML. HTML Caching may introduce all sorts of problems for end users, so installation and testing should be performed by a professional.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>This plugin can be controlled via the WordPress Dashboard or WP CLI. Additionally there are various filters and PHP constants at your disposal.</p>
<h3>Filter and constant reference</h3>
<p>The plugin has various filters and PHP constants that allows third-party developers to alter the behaviour of the plugin. Please read the article <a href="https://servebo.lt/servebolt-optimizer-filters-and-php-constants" rel="nofollow ugc">Filters and PHP constants</a> in our help center to learn more.</p>
<h3>Testing</h3>
<p>We test against the current production version of WordPress and the next beta/development version</p>


Servebolt Optimizer

This plugin implements Servebolt's WordPress best practices, and connects your site to the Servebolt Admin Panel.

Real IP and Geo for Cloudflare vs Servebolt Optimizer