Guides from the NOC

Cloudflare is retiring Page Rules for Redirect, Cache, Configuration & Origin Rules. Step-by-step guide to migrate your redirects and caching without downtime.

Cloudflare showing the same IP for every visitor in cPanel logs, AWStats, or WordPress? Learn how to restore the real client IP and stop bad Fail2Ban bans.

Cloudflare showing error 526, invalid SSL certificate? Learn why Full (Strict) mode rejects your origin cert and how to fix it for good, step by step.

Updated your site but still seeing the old version? Learn why Cloudflare caches stale HTML and how to purge it correctly, for good.

Site throwing Cloudflare error 524 'A timeout occurred'? Learn why the origin is too slow to respond and how to fix wp-cron, slow queries, and hung APIs.

Site down behind Cloudflare showing error 521, 522, or 525? Learn what each code really means and how to fix the origin connection fast.

The connection opened and then something slammed it shut. A reset is deliberate, which makes this one of the more findable errors once you know where to look.

AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Bytespider spiking your server load or bandwidth? Learn how to block them via robots.txt, .htaccess, or Cloudflare.

Getting a 408 Request Timeout during an upload or form submit? See why the client-side timeout trips in Nginx, Apache & Cloudflare, and how to fix it.

Favicon stuck showing an old or blank icon in WordPress? Learn the real causes: browser cache, CDN, and Site Icon conflicts, and fix each one step by step.

Getting a 405 Method Not Allowed error on your site or API? Learn which layer - Apache, Nginx, Cloudflare, or WordPress - is blocking the request and fix it.

Seeing a 504 Gateway Timeout on your site or API? Learn which layer - Cloudflare, Nginx, Apache, or PHP-FPM - is stalling, and fix each cause step by step.

Seeing a 502 Bad Gateway error on your site? Learn what's really failing behind the scenes - PHP-FPM, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare - and fix it step by step.

Getting ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome? Learn why the browser can't even start a TLS handshake and how to fix it on cPanel, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare.

Getting ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH in Chrome? Learn why it's a TLS handshake failure, not a bad cert, and fix it on cPanel, Nginx, or Cloudflare.

Getting SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG in Firefox? Learn why your browser thinks port 443 isn't serving SSL, and fix the Apache, Nginx or Cloudflare cause.

Getting a 413 Request Entity Too Large error on upload or import? Learn which layer - Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare - is blocking it and how to fix each one.

Site stuck in a redirect loop or showing ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS? Learn the real causes - SSL mode, .htaccess, WordPress URLs - and fix each one step by step.