Stay away from CloudFlare

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2021-06-17 17:00:14

CloudFlare has become one of the fastest growing DNS and CDN hosters on the Internet delivering some of the best DNS speeds worldwide, but if you value customers or visitors to your website you maybe need reconsider using CloudFlare.

CloudFlare delivers great DNS speeds worldwide and they have a really well designed control panel for managing DNS hosting, combine that with a premium free service and you get a powerful and very attracting DNS hosting solution for bloggers, webshop owners, and anyone else who owns a website. However, what most people overlook is that CloudFlare, in the name of security, every day blocks millions of valid users from visiting the websites that CloudFlare has registered in their hosting service.

In the control panel for DNS setup you have an option called "Firewall", and within that option there is a setting called "Security level".

By default it is set to "Medium", which means that a lot of people will be blocked from your website by a very annoying and time consuming CAPTCHA. And the problem with this option is that it cannot be disabled in the free service. You actually has to pay for the Enterprise edition, which is more that 200 dollars a month per domain, in order to disable the feature. Even if you set the setting to the lowest available value in the free service, which is Essentially off, many of your visitors will still be blocked.