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Why the download speed becomes slow than before in cloud server (Digital Ocean droplet with Cloudflare CDN)?
A cloud server (Digital Ocean droplet with Cloudflare CDN) runs a Wordpress website that hosts a software download for its visitors. One day, users report that their download only runs with 30kb/s, where before it ran easily with >5mb/s. A first…
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DigitalOcean Droplet and Managed Database with Load Balancer - DDOS Protection
I'll first start off by saying I'm no sysadmin or by any means knowledgable on servers, I'm just a developer tasked with a job of setting up the infrastructure for a SaaS application I'm working on, so forgive me for not entirely understanding…
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Is there a way to craft a Cloudflare API token such that it can only edit a specific *sub*domain's records?
I'm hoping to use Let's Encrypt for several domains and subdomains and my company. In lieu of buying a long lasting wild card cert that is installed on every machine, the goal is to use short lived and specific certs. This is to prevent our exposure…
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Conditional String Htaccess
I need to validate that an environment variable exists and that the value is equal to "cloudflare", in case there is no deny access.
I have done multiple tests, and I have not been able to make it work. This is my test code.
RewriteEngine on
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let's encrypt installed, but with cloudflare, browser throws SSL error
I've installed certbot, and run to create certificates with cloudflare global api key:
certbot certonly --dns-cloudflare --dns-cloudflare-credentials /root/.secrets/cloudflare.ini -d "mydomain.com" -d "www.mydomain.com" --preferred-challenges dns-01…
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How to host CloudFlare DNS subdomain at different IP
I'm using CloudFlare for DNS and Digital Ocean for servers.
Let's call my website "example.com". It has been working fine.
I've now created a second server, which has a different IP. I want a new subdomain "staging.example.com" to point to this…
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S3 hosted website with Cloudflare returns 404 status code for any non root route
I have an S3 hosted website working well behind Cloudflare with the following:
example.com/ works fine
example.com/test also works but the document itself in the network tab is returning 404, naturally, because /test doesn't exist on S3.
This is a…
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Creating a subdomain that points to another server from cloudflare
Sorry, I'm new at this but here is my problem:
We've got a domain with godaddy the dns is with cloudflare and the site is on herokuapp.
I need to create a subdomain for the domain which points to a server with wordpress so that marketing people can…
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How to set up Cloudflare, Custom Domain, SSL, and Elastic Beanstalk without a Load Balancer
Background & Research
I am currently in the process of polishing off the infrastructure for a project of mine and I have realised that I have a slight issue when it comes to the SSL certificate installation. I have conducted an exntensive amount of…
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Is it possible to make website that is using the cloudflare dns proxy work during cloudflare outage?
I thought about setting up a small server with nginx reverse proxy, adding its IP as A dns without cloudflare dns proxy next to main A record with CF dns proxy enabled, so it will be a backup option if the CF dns will go down. Is it possible to do…
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Should the CNAME reference the repo when hosting multiple sites with Github Pages under one username?
I'm running into an issue with a new site I just launched for a private repo but one site works and the other generates a 522 so I'm wondering if it's due to my CNAME. Here's a list of what I've done.
In the domain provider I modified the…
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How to get nearest DNS server throw CloudFlare?
My website is hosted in Vietnam, I can see tons of servers which CloudFlare (CF) support in Asia such as Hangzhou, China, Hanoi, Vietnam, Hengyang, China, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam…
But when I send PING test to my website, the response IP always in…
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How does cloudflare cdn work?
As far as I understand, you need to enter the original DNS records for the site, and you receive 2 cloudflare nameservers which you put in at the registrar, and cloudflare tests which nameservers are active and the corresponding DNS records get…
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CNAME SSL Redirect Setup with Cloudflare
I’m hosting two subdomains with two (non-wildcard) Let’s Encrypt certificates outside of cloudflare:
name.feed.example.com
name.example.com
I have a CNAME alias on Cloudflare (free plan) pointing
from name.example.com
to name.feed.example.com
I’m…
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Apache2 stopped but still showing 500 error on some browsers
So I'm having an issue where a domain renders properly in one browser, but not in another. In this example, Chrome 74 loads the site fine, but Chrome 76 ends up rendering a 500 error.
Here is the thing; when I stop Apache, Chrome 74 renders a…
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