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Cloudflare What CF Worker Usage Model to use?

Discussion in 'Web Development & Web Performance' started by rdan, Jun 1, 2022.

  1. rdan

    rdan Well-Known Member

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    I'm just using this CF worker script for caching guest view:
    Cloudflare Workers: Edge caching anonymous requests - @mmaton

    What model should I use?
    Bundled or Unbound?

    After some reading here:
    https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing

    It seems Bundled is the best model to choose specially if monthly requests don't reach 10 million.
    Not so sure if I can really hit the 50 ms CPU time / invocation limit.


    My workers created 1 hour ago:
    upload_2022-6-1_6-26-1.png
     
  2. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    I just use Bundled as Worker based caching isn't going to use alot of CPU.
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    Just checked my top 4 CF Workers' CPU Time medians :)

    010622-cf-workers-top-4-01.png
     
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    Another vote for Bundled from me. :)

    My Workers handled just over 31 million requests last month and it cost me $9 (plus $2 for KV read operations).
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    Yeah it's relatively cheap for what CF Workers can do :D
     
  6. rdan

    rdan Well-Known Member

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    I only targeted most visited and cacheable pages:
    upload_2022-6-5_17-0-13.png

    And I already have 4 million request for the past 4 days.
    upload_2022-6-5_17-1-13.png

    So I guess I'll be paying $15+ for workers plan.
     
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    Hi @rdan, could you give me some pointers to get this properly set up?
    I'm using the Pro plan but haven't done anything with workers yet. I doubt you can just copy/paste that script.
     
  8. rdan

    rdan Well-Known Member

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    For XF 2.2, this should work and cache your site for 1 hour on CF Edge (with minor edit from the code above).

    HTML:
    addEventListener('fetch', event => {
      event.respondWith(noCacheOnCookie(event.request))
    })
    
    async function noCacheOnCookie(request) {
      const cookie = request.headers.get('Cookie')
      // Cache for 1 hour
      const cacheSeconds = 3600
      if (cookie
        && (
          cookie.includes(`xf_session`)
          || cookie.includes(`xf_user`)
          || cookie.includes(`xf_lscxf_logged_in`)
        )) {
        const bustedRequest = new Request(request, { cf: { cacheTtl: -1 } })
        const response = await fetch(bustedRequest)
    
        const newHeaders = new Headers(response.headers)
        newHeaders.append('xf-cache-busted', `true`)
        return new Response(response.body, {
          status: response.status,
          statusText: response.statusText,
          headers: newHeaders
        })
      } else {
        return fetch(new Request(request, { cf: { cacheTtl: cacheSeconds } }))
      }
    }
    
    This addon is optional:
    LiteSpeed Cache for XF2 - Community

    But if someone can teach us how to bypass cache if some http response header is present, that addon is a must have.
    I just don't know javascript coding.
     
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    That optional plugin only works when running the Litespeed webserver I presume?
     
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    No, it works with Nginx too.
    The persistent cookie and header of that plugin are great for caching purposes.
     
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    Thanks @rdan, got a worker running now. I'll let it run for a few hours and gonna check some stats and run some benchmarks.
     
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    Code:
    cf-cache-status HIT
    
    Code:
    x-xf-cache-status HIT
    
    :)
     
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    rdan Well-Known Member

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    This is from XenForo :)
     
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    So I have to disable the local server caching?

    Edit:
    Holy crap, already burned through the 100.000 free requests, that was fast :nailbiting:

    So upgraded to the paid plan, let's see how much that is gonna cost on a monthly basis..
     
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    rdan Well-Known Member

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    It's up to you :)

    What is your HTTP routes looks like?
    Try targeting those cacheable pages only.
    Like what i did above.
     
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    I use the same as you
     
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    rdan Well-Known Member

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    CF Worker can be abused also, during DDOS attack some requests will pass through, be counted and billable :|

    upload_2022-6-21_8-45-44.png
     
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    That is normal if you configured CF Worker for caching and the attack is HTTP layer 7 application level attack which Cloudflare doesn't see as a DDOS attack.