Help after tweaking cloudflare

[nathanmartin]

@TexasDave Here’s some related Support Guides:

[Support Guide] What problems could occur when using Cloudflare in front of Netlify?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - November, 2024 Note: We recommend not using both Cloudflare’s CDN (“Accelerate and Protect”, the orange cloud in their UI) and Netlify for the same site at the same time. Why? Read on! Netlify’s web service is not designed to work optimally with another CDN “in front of” our CDN. Proxying to our service is in general not supported and we advise you not to do it for best hosting results. Cloudflare has made similar statements that it doesn’t recommend this u…

[Support Guide] Why not proxy to Netlify?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support in November 2024 Netlify’s CDN automatically routes your web visitors’ traffic to the nearest network server to give them the fastest possible response time…as long as you let their browsers talk directly to our CDN! We know you want your your web traffic to be fast; your deploys and rollbacks to be atomic; and your Analytics data to be useful. If you proxy to Netlify, you’ll have problems with all of the above - since those features of our service are only po…

Here’s an example of where users encountered issues recently:

Sites down, Awaiting Netlify DNS

Hello. I have a few sites on Netlify and they have been running fine for a few months now. At some point today all of my sites are down. They all use Cloudflare as the CDN. Cloudflare points to the host which led me to check DNS in Netlify which has led me here. In every site it now says “Awaiting Netlify DNS”. I haven’t made any changes at all, everything was fine for the last few months. So I am just wondering if there has been a change somewhere that I am not aware of? This is an exam…