Static sites: Do I really need Cloudflare on top of Render?

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Is anyone here using Cloudflare on top of their Render static site? If yes, why? Are there any performance improvements? Is this really needed?

Recently I have been experiencing issues with my static site accessibility and I suspect its because of Cloudflare - coming to conclusion that perhaps I don’t need to have on my static site at all.

Would love to hear your opinion on this.

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Hi @sky,

All Render services already have Cloudflare DDoS protection. We also are switching over our static sites to use Cloudflare as a CDN very soon, so using Cloudflare on top may be redundant at that point.

What kind of accessibility issues are you seeing?

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Hello @Jade_Paoletta . Finally someone is speaking up because I feel so helpless about the issues I am experiencing recently - my site’s traffic is down by 20% and this seems to have something to do with Cloudflare (just dont know is this CloudFlare you guys running in front of the Render or CloudFlare I connect to on my end).

I suspect that a lot of my website visitors is being blocked from accessing the website and this cause Google to de-rank/de-index my website in search results.

Please see this topic to understand what is going on:

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Hi @sky,

Thanks for the additional detail. The team is still looking into it and will follow up on the original thread.