Cloudflare articles

Cloudflare 393 Cloudflare: when it helps, how to switch it on, and the cache that fools you Cloudflare sits in front of your site: visitors reach it first, and it comes to us for what it needs. That brings...
Cloudflare 361 Cloudflare: what it is, what changes, and what stays the same Cloudflare is a company that puts its network in front of your site: visitors reach it first, and it comes to us for...
Cloudflare 327 Putting a domain on Cloudflare This is the route from start to finish on the Cloudflare side: create the account, add the domain, check what it...
Cloudflare 371 Creating a subdomain on Cloudflare With the domain on Cloudflare, creating a subdomain becomes a job of two halves, in two different panels. Doing only...
Cloudflare 352 Switching on SSL at Cloudflare without breaking the site This is the single most important setting Cloudflare has, and the easiest one to get wrong. The wrong value does not...
Cloudflare 368 Taking the whole DNS zone to Cloudflare without losing records When you add a domain to Cloudflare, it reads your current DNS and brings across what it finds. That gives the...
Cloudflare 373 The Cloudflare options worth having, and the ones that cause trouble The Cloudflare dashboard holds dozens of switches, all with names promising speed or safety. Some are worth having:...
Cloudflare 280 Orange cloud or grey cloud at Cloudflare: which records to proxy and which to leave DNS only The short answer: every record in Cloudflare’s DNS has a cloud beside it. Orange (Proxied) means visitors talk to...
Cloudflare 248 The real visitor IP behind Cloudflare: logs, applications and IP blocks For whoever runs the site, codes in it or has a VPS. With the site orange on Cloudflare, what connects to the server...
Cloudflare 228 Cloudflare blocked a real customer: security events, error 1020 and narrow exceptions The short answer: when a customer says they cannot log in, pay or send a form, and the site is orange on Cloudflare,...
Cloudflare 262 AutoSSL behind Cloudflare: why the free certificate leaves names out or fails to renew The short answer: the server’s free certificate (cPanel’s AutoSSL) is still needed with Cloudflare in front: it...
Cloudflare 196 Is this page coming from the Cloudflare cache? Reading cf-cache-status and purging one address The short answer: every response that goes through Cloudflare carries a header, cf-cache-status, that says whether...