Cloudflare gives your website top-notch security. But, it’s not much help if it stops you from checking up on your own site, right? Google Analytics is your best friend for tracking site performance and understanding how customers interact with articles on your sites, and it’s mission-critical that your tracking data is accurate, on-time, and unfiltered. … Read more
Once your website is up and running the way you like it, it’s all smooth sailing from here—until it isn’t. No matter what measures you take to prepare, if the server goes down at your web hosting provider there’s not much you can do to bring your site back online by yourself. As a backup … Read more
Imagine your Cloudflare server getting a confusing request it can’t understand. Instead of a clear answer, it sends back a mysterious message: Error 520, meaning ‘Web Server Is Returning An Unknown Error.’ No time to spare? Click here to jump to straight to how to fix this error. Usually, this happens when a program eats … Read more
If Cloudflare can’t connect your server to your domain, you’ll see one of the dreaded 1xxx errors in your web browser. You might see the Cloudflare Error 1016: Origin DNS Error message: Even if a Cloudflare A record or CNAME is resolving correctly an external domain that should be included in your control panel cannot … Read more
When Cloudflare is able to successfully connect to a web server but it doesn’t receive any HTTP response after a while, you’ll see the pesky Error 524: A Timeout Error Occurred: Cloudflare normally creates a TCP connection to the origin server, and it waits for a timeout period of 100 seconds for the origin server … Read more
The Cloudflare rate-limiting feature is designed to protect online services against different types of user attacks. In certain situations, Cloudflare can block valid requests resulting in an error message that looks something like this: The 1015 error often causes users to bounce from a site entirely. A smart website owner will act to resolve 1015 … Read more
Cloudflare’s 1020 “Access Denied” error occurs when a connection request arrives that appears to pose a threat to the site. Error 1020 can sometimes happen by mistake if your website has missing or outdated information, or if the server has crashed. So how can you (quickly) fix Cloudflare Error 1020 Access Denied? Let’s find out. … Read more
Cloudflare will return an error 521 message when your website refuses a connection with Cloudflare. This is frequently caused by firewalls or security software. The error looks something like this 👇🏻 Similar to Cloudflare error 520, there are a couple of different ways to fix this error. Let’s dive into why error 521 happens and … Read more
A 502 Bad Gateway is like a busy signal on the web. It means the problem is with the website’s server, not your computer or internet connection. Sometimes, Cloudflare can also trigger the 502 Bad Gateway error if it cannot reach the origin server or if its services are down. The error looks like this … Read more
Website uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH. Urgh, how annoying. Especially if this is your website. Even if you’re using the latest Chrome on the newest Windows or Mac system, you might still bump into the ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error. It’s more common with older setups but can surprise you on modern ones too. This is your browser’s … Read more
Seeing a Cloudflare 403 forbidden error pop up is really frustrating. It often happens because of some updates your hosting service did or maybe some settings got mixed up on your end. We will examine the possible solutions to fix 403 forbidden errors on your site. Let’s examine the causes of Cloudflare errors and how … Read more