What is Cloudflare ? How does it help webmasters ?
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SneakyDave
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It's strange, I have one site that that suddenly didn't add any new visitors, but much of the existing visitors started appearing as crawlers/bots. It almost looks like CF started labeling some of the visitors as bots. I'll take a look at adwords to see if I can find out what those bots/crawlers are.Hi,
Those analytics are domain specific
damoncloudflare
Active member
Results can vary based on type of site, etc. Generally speaking, however, we generally help cut requests by about 50-60% (my opinion is obviously a little biased..but largely based on comments from other customers as well).
damoncloudflare
Active member
Checked your account and most of the stuff is showing as web spammers (many from countries generally associated with spam and other nefarious stuff).
"It almost looks like CF started labeling some of the visitors as bots."
I'm not seeing that many labeled as bots (more web spammers and botnet zombies).
Adam Howard
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I'm thinking of turning off CloudFlare.
DNS issues.
I'll type in the manual IP address and get my site without issue. Type in the domain name and pass through CloudFlare, but get that page which reads "Site hosted by cloudflare, no local copy or offline"
DNS issues.
I'll type in the manual IP address and get my site without issue. Type in the domain name and pass through CloudFlare, but get that page which reads "Site hosted by cloudflare, no local copy or offline"
damoncloudflare
Active member
Hi,
That means either your server or hosting provider has rules blocking our requests. Can you please make sure CloudFlare's IPs aren't being blocked?
Full troubleshooting tips for site offline
That means either your server or hosting provider has rules blocking our requests. Can you please make sure CloudFlare's IPs aren't being blocked?
Full troubleshooting tips for site offline
Adam Howard
Well-known member
They continue to claim they're not.
p4guru
Well-known member
Try running domain name through these three dns test sites
could be misconfiguration in dns ?
If you run CSF firewall or iptables, you would need to allow all the Cloudflare IPs through too. I usually have a script to grab latest set of listed Cloudflare IPs https://www.cloudflare.com/ips which i auto add to CSF firewall or iptables.
Adam Howard
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I use Cloudflare on 3 websites of mine, it's a great tool to have, cache system is fast and you can set it in Dev mode if you're working on the design (css/js files). Also protects emails from bots automatically as well.
Have had a few issues with the "Website Currently Unavailable" page but that could be a few things (server side/my routing etc).
Preview of page, very nice UI;
Have had a few issues with the "Website Currently Unavailable" page but that could be a few things (server side/my routing etc).
Preview of page, very nice UI;
SneakyDave
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Just curious... On the CloudFlare "dashboard" there appears to be an area on that page that is supposed to show "You saved your users -- during this period by using CloudFlare!". Sometimes I see it appear when the page is loading and then disappear. Is this metric available for "pro" plans only?
Also, mitigating threats on the threat control page seems to be a global solution. It doesn't appear that you can have different threat control parmeters for different sites. Is that available in the pro plan?
Also, mitigating threats on the threat control page seems to be a global solution. It doesn't appear that you can have different threat control parmeters for different sites. Is that available in the pro plan?
damoncloudflare
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I use Cloudflare on 3 websites of mine, it's a great tool to have, cache system is fast and you can set it in Dev mode if you're working on the design (css/js files). Also protects emails from bots automatically as well.
Have had a few issues with the "
Website Currently Unavailable" page but that could be a few things (server side/my routing etc).
Preview of page, very nice UI;
Definitely make sure that our IPs are whitelisted on server and with host. The number one cause of site offline issues, if server is up and running, is something blocking requests from our IPs. There are other things that could happen, such as an upstream provider or local ISP issue, but the site offline really only happens if the server is down or something is blocking requests.
damoncloudflare
Active member
Working on it for all account types. Right now, unfortunately, threat control can't be used only on a specific domain level (threat control rules would apply to all sites in an account right now).
Yeah when I added my websites I made sure I added them to iptables but just to show you so I know I've done it right;
Robert Prost
Member
As already said to Damon in PM, the biggest drawback or better say fear-obstacle, is that you have to use their nameservers. Propagation of nameservers takes plenty of time and what makes it even worse, the propagation time differs world-wide. So the chance to move ns, just to discover that CloudFlare does not work for your site, is a no-go. Besides that, I want my services to look professional and having my own branded nameservers is just a status quo thing. Having the CouldFlare NS in there, is like when you had the NameZero NS in your domain 5-10 years ago ... people could just see that you are using something free and that is unpro.
Since CloudFlare has paid services, I don't understand why custom NS and AN IP POINTING OPTION is not included. I own > 20 servers @ OVH and I have several failover IPs from them from different countries. It is unfortunate, that CloudFlare is too inflexible to fit into my infrastructure ... as said, I will gladly pay for it. I am an internet marketer, among other things and sometimes I make > 1000$ in one single day (net profit), so I mean it, when I say that I would pay gladly
In my circle of contacts, I have enough people who account for a total of over 300k webistes (marketing blogs, automated blogs, PLR, etc etc) who would instantly switch to CloudFlare if they had more DNS control i.e. could point IPs (A record) ... and they would also gladly pay i.e. they do not even expect anything for free to be good
My site alone are in the thousands ...
So Damon ... if you want to hit Nasdaq with your company this year still, then just hear me out and follow my lead. I am younger than you, yes, but I am in business since 1996 and I am making money off the internet since 1998. Don't miss out
Since CloudFlare has paid services, I don't understand why custom NS and AN IP POINTING OPTION is not included. I own > 20 servers @ OVH and I have several failover IPs from them from different countries. It is unfortunate, that CloudFlare is too inflexible to fit into my infrastructure ... as said, I will gladly pay for it. I am an internet marketer, among other things and sometimes I make > 1000$ in one single day (net profit), so I mean it, when I say that I would pay gladly
In my circle of contacts, I have enough people who account for a total of over 300k webistes (marketing blogs, automated blogs, PLR, etc etc) who would instantly switch to CloudFlare if they had more DNS control i.e. could point IPs (A record) ... and they would also gladly pay i.e. they do not even expect anything for free to be good
My site alone are in the thousands ...
So Damon ... if you want to hit Nasdaq with your company this year still, then just hear me out and follow my lead. I am younger than you, yes, but I am in business since 1996 and I am making money off the internet since 1998. Don't miss out
damoncloudflare
Active member
"Since CloudFlare has paid services, I don't understand why custom NS and AN IP POINTING OPTION is not included. I own > 20 servers @ OVH and I have several failover IPs from them from different countries. It is unfortunate, that CloudFlare is too inflexible to fit into my infrastructure ... as said, I will gladly pay for it. I am an internet marketer, among other things and sometimes I make > 1000$ in one single day (net profit), so I mean it, when I say that I would pay gladl"
We are actually looking at allowing for the use of vanity nameservers This will likely be part of a Business or Enterprise tier of service.
"AN IP POINTING OPTION is not included."
You can point to us via a CNAME now. There are DNS RFC compliance issues that come into play with A records, so it has to be done because of DNS RFC compliance at this time (we're also looking to see if we can develop an alternative to this).
"So the chance to move ns, just to discover that CloudFlare does not work for your site, is a no-go."
As mentioned in our previous discussions, it is pretty easy to turn us off and/or switch back to your original registrar pretty quickly. While some registrars take a longer time to propagate out changes (24 hours or so), my personal experience is that most do it much, much more quickly than this. And sites that switch to CloudFlare won't have any downtime because of an NS switch.
We are working on some of the things you mentioned as areas of concern for you & we will probably have these items out the door, so to speak, in the coming months.
We are actually looking at allowing for the use of vanity nameservers
This will likely be part of a Business or Enterprise tier of service."AN IP POINTING OPTION is not included."
You can point to us via a CNAME now. There are DNS RFC compliance issues that come into play with A records, so it has to be done because of DNS RFC compliance at this time (we're also looking to see if we can develop an alternative to this).
"So the chance to move ns, just to discover that CloudFlare does not work for your site, is a no-go."
As mentioned in our previous discussions, it is pretty easy to turn us off and/or switch back to your original registrar pretty quickly. While some registrars take a longer time to propagate out changes (24 hours or so), my personal experience is that most do it much, much more quickly than this. And sites that switch to CloudFlare won't have any downtime because of an NS switch.
We are working on some of the things you mentioned as areas of concern for you & we will probably have these items out the door, so to speak, in the coming months.
damoncloudflare
Active member
Yeah when I added my websites I made sure I added them to iptables but just to show you so I know I've done it right;
And did you also check with the hosting provider? Hosting providers can also have rules for their network.
I had no downtime when I switched, if you're staying on the same IP/server you won't see it change
SneakyDave
Well-known member
I've had a problem with CF that I've contacted support about regarding images that CloudFlare has decided to add a "visibility:hidden" tag to. For what reason, I have no idea, but some people complain that images can't be seen, and when I look at the source, it looks like this.....
I don't know what CloudFlare app or service is doing this, but putting the site into development mode and hard refreshing, doesn't seem to fix it, because the visibility property is added to the post content in the message, it can't be removed by disabling CF. You have to edit the HTML source of the message posted.
After a lot of trial and error, the problem seems to be with the beta version of "Mirage: image resizing", on the CloudFlare settings -> Performance Settings tab. It just started happening a few days ago. I reported the bug to CF, and immediately turned it off for all my sites. I won't turn it on again. Strange how "pausing" CF didn't turn off this beta feature for me. Once I forced the feature off myself, my images automatically started working again.
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<img style="visibility:hidden;" data-cfsrc="http://imagehoster.com/image.jpg" /><noscript><img src=" http://imagehoster.com/image.jpg " /></noscript>After a lot of trial and error, the problem seems to be with the beta version of "Mirage: image resizing", on the CloudFlare settings -> Performance Settings tab. It just started happening a few days ago. I reported the bug to CF, and immediately turned it off for all my sites. I won't turn it on again. Strange how "pausing" CF didn't turn off this beta feature for me. Once I forced the feature off myself, my images automatically started working again.
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