rulerofzu Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Cause problems well no your site will still work. If I was a customer of yours based in the UK with customers viewing the site in the UK and Europe I wouldnt be happy about it as from what I could deduce I am being served content from the USA. See the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Just wondering, where does the law stand on this? Rulerofzu has brought up an interesting point, is the content classed as being server from the UK or US and how does this cloudflare re-route thing affect it? As you should be aware (considering you are in the hosting business), you have three things... where the person is viewing the content, where the servers hosting the content are and where the person who uploaded it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Its not a legal issue at all Octet. Its just performance related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Its not a legal issue at all Octet. Its just performance related. No, but you would also have that issue if there was a legal claim. If you are re-routing the traffic then you introduce another person into it, so by re-routing through cloudflare where do they stand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3Tek Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 Only our website D3Tek.net uses Cloudfare. I have used Cloudfare on quite a few websites and in my tests have only been able to find performance improvements. Obviously in this instance it is an issue with Cloudfare themselves and we have let them know about it. @Octet - there is no legal issue what so ever. It's not re-routing traffic. It's serving content from a server itt thinks will providers he best performance. Obviously it has got it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 @Octet - there is no legal issue what so ever. It's not re-routing traffic. It's serving content from a server itt thinks will providers he best performance. Obviously it has got it wrong. What would happen if for example someone filed a DMCA claim though? If you're hosting someones website on your servers, but the Cloudflare servers are serving it from their servers.... then I am guessing you would contact Cloudflare who would then contact you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3Tek Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 I have just said only our website uses Cloudfare, not our servers. All Cloudfare does is cache content and serve it from various places. If you go to there website you'll see what they do and how they do it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octet Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 I have just said only our website uses Cloudfare, not our servers. All Cloudfare does is cache content and serve it from various places. If you go to there website you'll see what they do and how they do it :) Ok, thanks for the explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverStar Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 @D3Tek, IT'S CALLED CLOUDFLARE NOT CLOUDFARE. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3Tek Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 I'm on the iPad and its an autocorrect haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent-Mafia.eu Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 So i signed up for the 5 days trail, all was ok and account was created, but it didn't gave me the nameservers, Any chance I could get to see that somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3Tek Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 Sorry about that, I'm not actually at the office today but I've let them know about this and they are fixing it as we speak. I'll PM you the name servers. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverStar Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 This makes no sense. You have an office? So, why aren't you a registered limited company? How do you pay tax and VAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3Tek Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 We do not pay VAT as we are not registered, therefor we do not charge VAT. We are just a partnership, not a limited company. The building we are in is a shared centre, anyone can rent offices here. We pay our taxes like everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rulerofzu Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 This makes no sense. You have an office? So, why aren't you a registered limited company? How do you pay tax and VAT? Anyone can rent an office does not require a company number or VAT registration which is only required once you reach the VAT threshold of £77,000 per annum although you can register for VAT before that should you feel the need. D3TeK speak to an accountant as there is VAT implications with your type of business which may benefit you. The only reason I can see for being a Ltd Company at an early point of the business is it gives customers a searchable record which gives them more reassurance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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