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That's what I do for my blog, http://www.korokithakis.net/. It's a small, custom blog system I wrote in half an hour, and caches everything, using Django's cache library. I just purge things whenever I add or edit a post. Generation is pretty fast, but the static media is a bit heavy for that theme...

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why not push them to a CDN ? and you could extract the inline images from the css and combine all of them into a sprite

Yep, I just enabled CloudFlare on it, I'll see if this makes it any faster. It's hosted on AppEngine, so I'm guessing (/hoping) the static files are already pushed to a CDN by Google.

I'm curious about what changes have you noticed when enabling CloudFlare, and whether you considered PageSpeed as well. Do tell?

I haven't noticed many changes, it looks like the site loads a bit faster, but overall I haven't seen much. PageSpeed is different from CloudFlare, it just tells you how to make your page more lightweight. I had run PageSpeed before switching to CloudFlare.

Cool, please do drop an update if you come to any conclusions about its efficacy.

BTW, I meant the PageSpeed Service for GAE [1], which seems like it's basically CloudFlare running mod_pagespeed on all requests.

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

Oh, from what I saw, that just applied the best practices in the PageSpeed plugin to every request, which I had already done, so I didn't think it was necessary to run again. Please let me know if it does something I haven't seen!

My main use case was a CDN, as I'm not sure if Google pushes the GAE files to various locations.

Yup that's all it does, automate those best practices, so there's probably no need for you to use it over CloudFlare.

GAE edge caching is poorly documented, here's what I've found so far:

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/6xA...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2...

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/8QgEU...

[4] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/8QgEUBOiNFw...

Damn, those links are very useful, thank you. I'll make sure I follow the practices, thanks again!

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