Why Enable Under Attack Mode? Cloudflare’s Under Attack Mode (also known as “I’m Under Attack Mode” or IUAM) is a powerful, temporary security feature designed to mitigate Layer 7 (application-layer) DDoS attacks and other high-volume malicious traffic. When your website experiences a sudden surge in suspicious requests (such as bots flooding your server with traffic), Read More >
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How to Set Up Cloudflare with InMotion Hosting
Cloudflare is a global content delivery network (CDN), security, and performance platform that protects and speeds up websites. It acts as a reverse proxy, routing traffic through its network for DDoS protection, WAF (Web Application Firewall), caching, and more. This guide walks you through a full nameserver setup (the most common method), which is fully Read More >
AutoSSL with Cloudflare
The Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) service works well when you need a faster website and your web hosting plan doesn’t include an SSL certificate. In this case, you’d likely be using Cloudflare’s Flexible SSL/TLS encryption mode. This means only traffic between your viewers and Cloudflare is encrypted, not between Cloudflare and your origin web Read More >
How to Enable DNSSEC with Cloudflare
See our related guide to enable DNSSEC on cPanel servers. In this article, we cover how to implement domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC) with the Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN). This procedure is meant to work in sync with other DNS tools, whether you are altering your DNS records with a registrar or on Read More >
Enable HSTS in Cloudflare for Stronger SSL Security
Whether you’re using shared or VPS hosting services to create a website, it’s important to have a SSL certificate for added security. But it is not enough to install a domain validated SSL. You need to ensure your web server only serves website requests with an encrypted connection. This is accomplished with a 301 redirect Read More >
Configuring Jetpack to work with Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a service that provides content distribution, caching and protection for your website. Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that provides statistics, search engine optimization, social sharing, protection, backups, security and many other options. To provide these services, Jetpack must pass data through the xmlrpc.php file. Normally, CloudFlare is compatible with WordPress and does not Read More >