Cloudflare Website Protection

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Expose Real IP Addresses in Cloudflare & Nginx

How to expose a users real IP address in Nginx logs when using Cloudflare. By default everything routed through Cloudflare shows up in your logs as a Cloudflare server IP.

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Building a Magento Cluster

Building a Magento cluster with seperate admin server on GCP using SQL, Filestore and Redis.

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Why I Use Cloudflare For DNS, Firewall & More

I first started using Cloudflare when I was sick of being up and nights and weekends fending off scrapers and bots from a large e-commerce site.

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Essential Free Tools For Every Website

As a webmaster, I am always on the lookout for new tools to help me in my work. Google provides a wealth of resources, and I am particularly fond of Data Studio for its ability to pull in data streams and create beautiful dashboards.

Cloudflare provides many useful tools for free. I put them in front of any commercial website for the protection, tools, caching and analysis they bring. Even on the $20 a month service you have their caching and optimisation tools which when implemented correctly can speed up a website - resulting in an improved conversion rate, core web vital score and organic rankings. If your website is slow or difficult to use then please contact me - I can optimise and fix slow sites.