Using Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) service. On average, a web site using Cloudflare loads 200% faster, uses 60% less bandwidth, and is more secure.

What is Cloudflare?

Learn about Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), how it works, and how it can help improve your site’s performance and security.

Activating Cloudflare

Learn how to activate Cloudflare for your web site with just a few easy steps.

Using SSL with Cloudflare

Learn about the different options for using SSL on a Cloudflare-enabled account: using a cPanel SSL certificate, managing root domains and subdomains, and what to do if your account currently does not have an SSL certificate.

Troubleshooting Cloudflare connections

This article provides information you can use to help troubleshoot accounts that use Cloudflare by examining Cloudflare error pages and checking the site DNS settings.

Using Cloudflare to defend against DDoS attacks

Cloudflare can help your site withstand DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. This article shows you how to enable the “Under Attack” mode in Cloudflare, as well as how to whitelist specific IP addresses.

Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare Universal SSL

Cloudflare offers SSL for all sites, but Cloudflare SSL only encrypts the connection from the visitor to Cloudflare. This article shows how to provide full, end-to-end encryption for the entire connection from the visitor to the server.

Turning off Cloudflare

Cloudflare needs to be off for certain tasks. Learn to turn Cloudflare off and turn Development Mode on in this article.

cPanel SSL and Cloudflare Universal SSL

Cloudflare offers SSL for all sites, but Cloudflare SSL only encrypts the connection from the visitor to Cloudflare. This article shows how to provide full, end-to-end encryption for the entire connection from the visitor to the server.

Troubleshooting SSL certificate renewals for Cloudflare-enabled domains

If you use an SSL certificate on a Cloudflare-enabled domain, you may experience problems when you try to renew the certificate. This article provides specific instructions on how to resolve these issues.

Clearing the Cloudflare cache

This article describes how to clear the Cloudflare cache for your account.

Discontinuation of Cloudflare CDN cPanel and Plesk plugins

Cloudflare is discontinuing the CDN plugins for cPanel and Plesk on November 1, 2022. Learn more about this change in this article.

Configuring DNS records for email in Cloudflare

Learn how to configure DNS records in Cloudflare so your domain’s email works correctly.