Guides
Plain-language guides to the Cloudflare settings people actually search for: the orange cloud, proxy status, SSL/TLS encryption modes, and caching.
What Does the Orange Cloud Mean in Cloudflare?
Proxied vs DNS only, in plain terms: what the orange and grey cloud each change, which record types and ports qualify, and how to read the errors the toggle causes.
8 min read
Cloudflare Orange-to-Orange (O2O), Explained
Two Cloudflare zones, one request: how O2O routing works with Cloudflare for SaaS, which zone each setting applies in, and what breaks.
7 min read
Which Cloudflare SSL/TLS Encryption Mode Should You Use?
Off, Flexible, Full, Full (strict): what each does to the second hop, which error each one produces, and why Cloudflare may now pick for you.
8 min read
Why Is Cloudflare Not Caching My Site?
DYNAMIC, BYPASS and a MISS that never becomes a HIT are three different failures with three different fixes — read the header first.
8 min read
Why Isn’t My Cloudflare DNS Change Working Yet?
Nothing propagates — caches expire. Which of the four layers is holding your old answer, and why lowering the TTL cannot fix a cached NXDOMAIN.
8 min read
Why Isn’t My Cloudflare Cache Purge Working?
Instant Purge really is instant, so a stale file means the purge matched nothing — or the copy you are looking at was never Cloudflare’s to delete.
7 min read
What Is CNAME Flattening in Cloudflare?
Why a root domain cannot hold a real CNAME, what Cloudflare returns instead, and the three setups flattening quietly breaks.
8 min read
Why Am I Seeing Cloudflare Error 1000: DNS Points to Prohibited IP?
The proxy refuses to forward a request to itself. Which records, reverse proxies, and request headers trigger it — and how 1000 differs from 1002, 1003, and 1014.
8 min read