Could Cloudflare Media Storage Be Slowing Down Fluent Community?
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out why my Fluent Community is running so slowly. There are only about 5 posts so far, but the entire community loads very slowly — even clicking the like button takes about 5 seconds for the heart to turn red. Uploading photos is also painfully slow.
I’m using Cloudflare for media storage, and I’m wondering if that could be contributing to the lag. The rest of my website performs well (I use NitroPack for speed optimization, and GTmetrix gives it an A), so it’s puzzling that the community section is this sluggish.
I do plan to hire someone to help declutter and optimize the site overall, but I’d love to hear if anyone has experienced similar issues — especially when integrating Fluent Community with Cloudflare.
Any ideas on what might be causing this, or things I should check?
Thanks in advance!
Most probably it’s the server. Which hosting are you using?
Shahjahan Jewel I’m based in Poland and use HashMagnet, but 99% of my members are in the USA—maybe that affects things somehow. I recently redesigned my website, which now has around 300 pages, so that might be part of the issue.
Shahjahan Jewel I’m considering moving to Cloudways with DigitalOcean Premium (2 GB RAM | 1 vCPU | 50 GB SSD | 2 TB bandwidth). Do you think this would be a good choice for my website?
Chris Cloudways is good but they provide old servers on low level servers. I recommend xCloud. Please take a look: https://xcloud.host/
This community and also all of our sites are hosted in the xcloud.
Disclaimer: I am on of the directors and investor of xCloud.
Shahjahan Jewel Thank you!