CloudFlare a website optimization technology service that we provide
to our customers which uses a number of techniques to improve your
site performance and security.
CloudFlare is a CDN (content delivery network) with a security layer.
Once a website is part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is
routed through CloudFlare's global network.
It has potential to speed up your website for a number of reasons.
CloudFlare caches static content from your site and distributes it
across their CDN around the world. CloudFlare also inspects all
traffic coming into your site and filters out malicious and unwanted
traffic, reducing the number of h...
According to CloudFlares, an average website will see a 30% increase
in speed, use 60% less bandwidth and serve 65% fewer requests when
using CloudFlare.
In addition to the speed increases, your site will also be protected
by basic security features such as hotlinking protection, the ability
to bl...
CloudFlare's network currently has 23 locations where it does caching
and traffic filtering.
These include Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Jose, Dallas,
Chicago, Newark, Ashburn, Amsterdam, Paris, Singapore, London, Miami,
Sydney, Atlanta, Frankfurt, Seattle, Toronto, Stockholm, Warsaw,
Prague,...
Almost all websites can use CloudFlare. CloudFlare works for both
static and dynamic websites.
CloudFlare is not suitable for websites that stream video or audio
directly from their origin server. If a website uses YouTube or Vimeo
for the videos embedded on your website, then that is compatible w...
If you have SSL, your website can use CloudFlare, however there is an
extra step. If your SSL is on its own sub-domain (i.e. SSL), then
ensure that this sub-domain is marked with a gray cloud. If your SSL
is on your root domain or www, then you have to upgrade to the paid,
Pro service and follow the...
Only CNAME records have the option to be powered by CloudFlare.
However, not all CNAME records are appropriate to pass through the
CloudFlare system.
To decide which records pass through the CloudFlare network, you need
to understand what type of content appears on that subdomain. You
should enabl...
No, for security reasons, CloudFlare does not proxy traffic to a
wildcard sub-domain. You have to explicitly list the sub-domain as a
CNAME in your DNS records to be able to activate CloudFlare.
Once you activate CloudFlare on websever.com.my you also get an
account at www.cloudflare.com. The basic statistics and settings are
shown in your webserver.com.my control panel. To see more statistics,
your Threat Control panel and all the CloudFlare settings, you have to
log in to your www.cloudfl...
Yes, CloudFlare uses gzip to compress your website content, so you
don't have to enable gzip yourself.
If, however, you enable gzip for your website, it will not cause any
disruptions and your website will remain fully functional.
CloudFlare is designed to protect your website from many types of
malicious online activities such as:
* Web software vulnerabilities
* Email harvesting
* SQL injections
* Spam comments
* Cross-site attacks
* Credential hacking
WEBSITE 502 OR 504 GATEWAY ERROR
The 502 and 504 errors are quite similar. The error caused by a
problem connecting to an upstream server - meaning. Your server is
trying to initiate a process and this fails to work as expected or
times out.
Generally, a HTTP 502 or 504 error occurs because your ...
WEB SERVER IS RETURNING AN UNKNOWN ERROR
A common Cloudflare 520 error triggered when the origin server returns
an empty or unexpected response. The server-side diagnostic message
indicates that even though a request reached the origin web server,
the server received an invalid HTTP response or did...
WEBSITE RETURNING ERROR 521
Cloudflare will return error 521 when the website refuses to connect
with Cloudflare. Commonly the error caused by firewall or security
software.
The error will be shown as below
Let's find out what caused the error that might include
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WEB SERVER IS DOWN - Clou...
CLOUDFLARE ERROR 1020 ACCESS DENIED
Typical Cloudflare 1020 error (Access Denied) encountered by web
visitors to access certain websites from their browser. Usually, it
occurs whenever a connection request appears to pose a threat to the
website. This particular Cloudflare error code almost exclusi...
