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Hi, "I have been a member of the following sites for over a year and since they switched to claudflare their visits went down:" We wouldn't do anything that would directly impact your traffic. A lot of things could be at play, including a change in your SERPs at a search engine, etc.

CloudFlare error messages If you mean site offline error messages, the causes are here (server actually offline or something is blocking our requests). Site owners need to make sure they don't have rules in .htacess, iptables, etc. that aren't blocking our requests.

Hi shakhawat, Any site where you can change the DNS to point to CloudFlare can use CloudFlare. CloudFlare dashboard settings don't have anything to do with it?

CloudFlare error Hi, What error?

CloudFlare DNS settings Glad you found them:) Other folks that want to look at DNS settings on CloudFlare can go to: Settings->DNS settings for that domain

Hi, What issues did you have with site downtime?

Thanks! Thanks for checking out CloudFlare. Some recommended tips for new CloudFlare users (can help eliminate some areas of confusion for folks that are new to CloudFlare).

CloudFlare and MX records You would want to make sure that your MX and Mail records are included in your CloudFlare DNS settings.

Hi, Why? We have a lot of large sites using CloudFlare.

CloudFlare issue What was the issue? Most things can be explained and/or have a fix.

Hi, "i was using hostgator baby plan after seeing thread in wj i changed name servers and everything as they said my msn friends know how much i suffered cos os that" You don't have to change nameservers if you activate via HostGator or any other hosting partner. That's probably where you...

CloudFlare improvement "Personal experience: I have not seen any particular improvement." You should. We have several datacenters in Europe, with at least one more on the way for the UK. The caching for CloudFlare can take several days t build out for new sites, so things should get...

CloudFlare's CDN I'm also going to include some frequently asked questions about the CloudFlare CDN. This will help answer some questions about how we do it, what we cache, etc.

Hi, Yes, any site where you have control over changing the nameservers to point to CloudFlare at your registrar. Note: Changing nameservers are not required when activating through a CloudFlare hosting partner with cpanel integration.

Hi, Thanks! The beta features (Auto Minify, Rocket Loader) definitely need to be turned off if they screw with anything (most likely to impact JavasScript and CSS).

CloudFlare bandwidth limit There are no limits as long as it complies with our Terms of Service. Just in case there are any concerns at all, we will not base our pricing based on traffic in the future. It all depends on the features you want to have access to & not bandwidth.

Hi, Always Online actually does work. Always Online does have some limitations and considerations for it to work.

We actually have a number of large Vbulletin forums using CloudFlare. Probably the single biggest concern is making sure you install mod_cloudflare to get original visitor IP. I also have some other tips for CloudFlare and forums.

Hi, Just a quick note that having an issue in one datacenter doesn't mean all site visitors are having issues. If one datacenter is having problems, all of the other CloudFlare datacenters are still up; this only impacts visitors hitting the datacenter having issues at that time.

Hi, You definitely don't want to have anything blocking our requests at the host or server level. Some quick things to check or do: Site offline things to check Install mod_cloudflare so original visitor IPs get passed back to host/server/