Any downside to using centmin 22 with cloudflare flex SSL instead of Let's Encrypt ?

Hello folks,

Since I'm not really skilled admin-wise I would like to "Keep It Simple Stupid" as much as possible.

I'm really happy with my WP option 22 installs, works wonderfully. However I need a few WP installs to have SSL.

Here is my question, hopefully someone can answer that one easily : is there any real downside to using CloudFlare "Flex" SSL instead of doing the full Let's Encrypt installation ?

i.e.: is a simple WP option 22 + CloudFlare Flex SSL a pretty good setup or is it crappy / very limited and will cause problems later on ?

Thanks a lot,

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Cheers,

PS: in case you're wondering: I just need SSL because I have forms hosted on these sites and it'll soon become not user friendly to have forms without SSL.

 

Awesome, thanks for clarifying that !!

 

Hummm, it seems like if I want to use CloudFlare flex SSL certificates I also need to have CloudFlare caching (which never made my CentMinMod sites faster...)

It seems like a workaround would be to run a CRON job that make sure the website is always in development mode, since (apparently) the development mode let you have SSL but no caching.

Cloudflare API documentation v4

I'm wondering if anyone has tried that already ?

Or am I the only one that has seen a speed decrease using CloudFlare compared to using CentMinMod alone (?)

Cheers,

PS: most of my visitors are within a 800 miles radius, so this could explain why in my case CloudFlare caching doesn't help at all.

 

I'm always using webpagetest.org but obviously since my visitors are pretty close to my server location (800 miles radius max) I guess CloudFlare doesn't help in that situation...

Is ngx_pagespeed enabled by default ? I didn't think so (?) I'll have a look at that.

Thanks for the pointers !