The words in the dashboard.
- ZONE: a domain added to Cloudflare, with its own records and settings
- PROXIED: traffic routed through Cloudflare, shown as an orange cloud
- DNS ONLY: Cloudflare answers the lookup, traffic goes direct, shown as a grey cloud
- ORIGIN: your actual server, in this case ours
- EDGE: Cloudflare's network locations
- CACHE HIT: a request served from Cloudflare's cache
- CACHE MISS: a request that had to be fetched from the origin
- PURGE: clearing cached copies
- PAGE RULE: settings applied to URLs matching a pattern
- CACHE RULE: the newer equivalent, with more options
- FIREWALL RULE: a rule blocking, challenging or allowing traffic
- CHALLENGE: a test presented to a visitor before allowing access
- SECURITY LEVEL: how readily Cloudflare challenges questionable traffic
- UNDER ATTACK MODE: an interstitial shown to every visitor
- DEVELOPMENT MODE: a temporary cache bypass
- FULL (STRICT): encrypted to the origin with certificate validation
- ORIGIN CERTIFICATE: a certificate Cloudflare issues for the connection to your server
- TTL: how long a record or cached file may be kept
WHICH MATTER MOST
Proxied versus DNS only, and the SSL mode. Those two account for most problems.
