CloudFlare is a content delivery network and distributed domain name server service marketed as improving website performance and speed and providing security.
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How secure is CloudFlare's basic SSL
CloudFlare's basic SSL package provides SSL encryption for you site, but only between your customer's browser, and the CloudFlare server where SSL is terminated. The connection between CloudFlare and ...
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SSH to a server with multiple reverse DNS entries [duplicate]
While SSHing into my server with an RSA key, I get this message:
Address 255.100.236.105 1 maps to a1.example.com, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
Even ...
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https not working in nginx behind ELB and CloudFlare [duplicate]
Part of my nginx.conf is
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name www.mysite.com;
I listen on port 80 just fine, but not on 443. Any idea what's wrong?
UPDATE
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Setting up CloudFlare with Route 53?
I'm trying to get CloudFlare to sit in front of Route 53. I have my main web server on an ELB (which doesn't have an IP address). CloudFlare needs an IP for an A record, so how can I accomplish this?
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.htaccess allow/deny doesn't work with CloudFlare [duplicate]
.htacess contents:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
Allow from 86.101.198.88 (my ip)
ErrorDocument 404 /block/?code=404
ErrorDocument 403 /block/?code=403
My hosting ...
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isup.me reported site down but I still can access website like normal
I have nginx as backend running WordPress (with w3tc cache plugin installed), varnish as reserve caching proxy, and cloudflare set up.
Sometimes, I see isup.me reported my website is down but in fact ...
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Wordpress feed does not update after APC and Cloudflare
I am running a Wordpress site on a Ubuntu server. I installed APC and setup Cloudflare. After that I started having a strange problem with the feed.
When I check the feed on the browser, I can see ...
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Sendmail Modifies Recipient Address from DNS Lookup
CentOS 5.8 box (Unitrends Appliance) with stock Sendmail sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7. If we email to normal addresses from the box (we have two boxes both doing the same thing) everything is fine. If ...
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Resolving CloudFlare DNS related mail delivery problems
I recently started using CloudFlare and am having a few teething problems.
Our domain is netlanguages.com and while we have a lot of sub-domains listen, we are currently only trialling a few of the ...
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Protect dedicated server with cloudflare [closed]
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 based dedicated server with LAMP installed. I host several websites, but for now all websites are on same IP, configured using Apache Virtual Hosts.
Everyone can attack my ...
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Mail Server with Plesk: Cloudflare Settings
I would like to have support in order to set up mail boxes with Plesk 11.
I use Cloudflare for thisIsMyDomain.com protection
With Plesk I created a new mail box:
forum@thisIsMyDomain.com
This mail ...
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Statically mirroring a heavy trafficked site, CloudFlare as DNS
I run a fairly heavy trafficked website and due to some unfortunate incidents the machines that are in my cloud at Linode went down. And I have only a single Load Balancer machine exposed to the ...
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How to setup a “server is down” message like Reddit and Twitter does? [closed]
I have a VPS with our Ubuntu LoCo Team's blog, but I want to setup a message that says the server is down when it happens, like Reddit and Twitter does.
For example, if I restart the server or my VPS ...
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Two DNS service providers
Is there a way to have two DNS service providers?
I have DNS Made Easy account and Cloudflare but I want to use both.
My domain registrar has nameservers pointing to DNS Made Easy
How would this ...
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Cloudflare is slowing down/showing offline while it isn't [closed]
Since a few days i migrated to cloudflare. But since this morning cloudflare is terribly slow and even showing an offline page once in a while. The first few requests are fast but it gets slower the ...
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CloudFlare; getting rid of the direct-connect subdomain
I'm right now trying to get rid of the direct-connect subdomain which gets added automatically and is not visible in the CloudFlare DNS panel.
I've read about it here;
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Using namecheap dns with cloudflare
Since CloudFlare doesn't provide E-mail forwarding I need to leave my DNS management on Namecheap.
What DNS records (A,CNAME,...) would I need to point to CloudFlare (and to where) to be able to ...
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iptables - drop all HTTP(S) traffic but from CloudFlare
I would like to allow only HTTP(S) traffic coming from CloudFlare. In that way attackers cannot attack the server directly.
I know CloudFlare is not mainly a DDoS mitigator, but I would like to try ...
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DNS subdomain catch-all linking to my external address
First of all, I'm not that into DNS, so maybe the answer to this question is very obvious, sorry in either way.
What I want is this:
A DNS record which catches all non-existing subdomains on my site ...
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Using Varnish (only) for DDoS mitigation
My VPS is suffering from a (D)DoS doing a SYN flood with spoofed IPs. I'm right now searching from ways how to be able to defend (at least a bit) against it.
It's running a DirectAdmin apache2 ...
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Configuration issue with HttpRealipModule (CloudFlare) in nginx configuration file
I've been attempting to use HttpRealipModule with the CloudFlare IP range in my main nginx configuration file but upon restarting nginx I'll just get a standard `"configuration file ...
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AWS EC2 - Present UK IP address for outgoing requests from server in AWS Ireland data centre
We have an application that monitors client websites and does some crawling.
We're looking to move the application to existing EC2 servers that we run, but testing suggests that we're going to have ...
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DNS nameserver with cloudflare
I originally bought a domain from namecheap.com then I bought hosting at inmotionhosting, where I pointed the DNS from namecheap to inmotionhosting... now I signed up with cloudflare and pointed DNS ...
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apxs cannot install mod_cloudflare on centos
[ Linux - CentOS - Apache 2.2 - mod_cloudflare - apxs2 ]
I have changed my nameservers to point to CloudFlare. The problem is that all the IP addresses are coming in as CloudFlare's. This is no good, ...
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Other services like CloudFlare's Always Online? [closed]
Since the website is about server problems i guess it is good to ask about this. I just want my viewers to be able to see a cached version of my website's main page and a couple other pages even if ...
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Setting an SPF/DKIM record with CloudFlare
What is the correct way to setup an SPF record?
Use TXT and add the following?
v=spf1 a mx include:mydomain.tld ~all
UPDATED:
After using the following:
v=spf1 a mx ~all
I get this:
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nginx 502 bad gateway some files
im using cloudflare. my site working good but not loading any images, css files and js files.
my server details;
ubuntu 12.04
nginx/1.1.19
php5-fpm
mysql
you can check live here
Check with www and ...
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CloudFlare dashboards empty, or performance issues
I wanted to test CloudFlare performance so I set my image gallery domain on it and started testing. I have added PageRules for caching. And chose the Security: Essentially Off.
I checked NS check ...
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Correct usage of whitelisting cloudflare IPs in iptables
I'm relatively new to using the command line so I'm understandably nervous about fiddling around with IP tables and accidentally doing something wrong which consequently opens up vulnerabilities in ...
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iptables with Cloudflare
I'm using fail2ban to block web vulnerability scanners. It is working correctly when visiting the site if CloudFlare is bypassed, but a user can still access it if going through it. I have ...
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Fail2Ban adds iptable rules but they are not working?
Fail2Ban just blocked my IP for 3 SSH attempts. It added the iptables rule and I can see it using the "sudo iptables -L -n" command. But I can still access the site and login through SSH! What might ...
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How To go fully IPv6 with Cloud Flare, a web server with both ipv4 and ipv6?
I have setup an Nginx server in a machine which have both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. Currently, its connected to CloudFlare and only use ipv4. I have 1 ipv4 address assigned to the web server.
Now what ...
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Show original ip with cloudflare
I installed nginx and the HttpRealipModule to get the original ip of my visitors.I also add this in the http{ } part in my nginx.conf
set_real_ip_from 204.93.240.0/24;
set_real_ip_from ...
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Cloudflare not purging cached redirect
My previous host had an apache redirect to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi.
Since I've changed my dns to the new server:
http://50.19.151.180/
which works fine.
The domain is: http://jquill.com <- ...
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Only allowing traffic from Cloudflare
I am new to Linux System Administration and I am experimenting with iptables trying to learn how to really lock down a system with them. And one thing a friend of mine recommended was that there was a ...
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CloudFlare offers DNS root CNAMEs. Any resolution gotchas to be aware of?
I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of DNS, preferring to just add my CNAMEs and A records as appropriate, and leave the behind the scenes to other services. I host a few sites on Amazon S3, ...
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Using CloudFlare with a mirror site
I am developing a mirror website (where people can download files, sort of like a FTP). I was wondering about using CloudFlare to help cut down on bandwidth usage. I have the mirror website with ...
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powweb and cloudflare
I am using powweb as hosting provider and cloudflare as free cdn. Its been few weeks since my website is down and it says "website down, no cache version available".
And to add more to it, I cannot ...
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Files will not update after setting up Cloudflare
I setup cloud flare for and tried it out, it messed up my entire site by caching pages and sending the same page over and over (I use ajax and call the page over and over). I took it off and switched ...
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Using dd-wrt Dynamic DNS client with CloudFlare
I'm trying to configure Dynamic DNS client on my router with dd-wrt (v24-sp2) firmware so it would dynamically change IP address in one of the DNS records. Unfortunately I encountered a problem… Here ...
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How does CloudFlare protect a web site?
I am a little confused about the protection CloudFlare offers. I am directing the www subdomain through CloudFlare with an Orange Cloud, and another subdomain (let's say direct) with a Grey Cloud. But ...
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DNS takes forever - Using Pingdom
So I am using the new CloudFlare.. I have a GoDaddy shared hosting account, which i know isn't the fastest in the world, but DNS seems very slow. I have a Wordpress blog configured as the following:
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Iptables list doesn't persist across restarts
I am trying to white list CloudFlare's IP addresses on my server by issuing these:
iptables -N whitelist
iptables -A whitelist -s 204.93.177.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A whitelist -s 199.27.128.0/21 -j ...
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Cloudflare performance, ddos
I have been using cloudflare CDN on my website (wordpress) for about 4 months, mostly because I was hoping the CDN would make things faster, and make the load on my cheap server somewhat smaller, ...
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Usefulness of CloudFlare for clients of Argentina [closed]
We are currently hosting an important site in the US with a CloudFlare pro subscription.
Since most of the people that visit the site are from Argentina, we are considering migrating the server to ...
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Cloudflare hurting performance
I recently set up cloudflare on a new site I'm about to launch. I ran some benchmarks with it on and with it off and the output is extremely troubling. Does this make sense to anyone?
Before when ...
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Cloudflare and Cache-Control
I am experimenting with Cloudflare, mainly to relief the load of my webserver in peak moments. I just signed up and it seems to be working (all my traffic is being proxied) but Cloudflare does not ...
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AWS Free Usage Tier + Cloudflare… possible?
If I throw my MySQL/PHP app up on a Amazon EC2 instance (using their AWS Free Usage Tier program) and couple it with CloudFlare (the free plan of course) roughly how many daily visitors can I ...
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Free Web Forwarding without Nameservers
I have a site running Google App Engine and using CloudFlare (a free CDN proxy, using its own nameserver).
This leaves me with no options for the root domain.
App Engine does not support naked ...
