Use Cloudflare CDN for static assets

[mroderick]

Description of the issue 📄

During a past incident I learned that Rails is serving up static assets, which is completely unnecessary. We already have the domain set up with Cloudflare, so we may as well use their CDN and save some load on the Rails app.

Screenshots 📷

Go look at the log files ;)

Steps to fix 🛠

https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/using-cloudflare-as-cdn-for-rails-applications

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[mroderick]

I claim this issue!

[mroderick]

We probably don't want to cache everything in public/ for the suggested duration of one year, as that's also where the sitemap.xml will get served from.

This article suggests a solution that might work for us: https://appsintheopen.com/posts/64-rails-page-caching-cache-headers-and-thruster

[mroderick]

It seems that CloudFlare does cache some assets, but there are still requests coming through to the Rails app. This warrants more detailed investigation, before modifying the application and CloudFlare configuration.