Yo, So I've had an issue with all my sites that I run, all of which have their domains running through CloudFlare, but they're on different hosts, one is a small shared host, and the other is a VPS I'm gradually migrating to.
The issue I've been having is that when I refresh a page over and over again, sometimes it will take a while to connect, and it was just sluggish to connect in general. On the shared host I could totally understand that, but on my shiny new VPS with barely anything running on it this just shouldn't have been happening, so I decided to pause CloudFlare on my domains, wait 10 minutes, and then see what happens.
And holy crap, things are a lot snappier now on both the sites on my shared host and the sites on my VPS. I don't have proof of the performance increase, I'm going by what seems faster to me, and it's quite a noticeable increase in speed.
Has anybody else who uses CloudFlare tried this? Did pausing CloudFlare on your domain improve things at all? (remember to wait 10 minutes) Really curious to see if it's just me.