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Cloudflare Fundamentals
Cloudflare is one of the world's largest connectivity cloud networks ↗. Today, anyone with an Internet presence can have faster and more secure websites and applications thanks to Cloudflare. This includes bloggers, businesses, and even non-profits.
Millions of Internet properties are on Cloudflare, and our network is growing by tens of thousands each day. Cloudflare powers Internet requests for millions of websites and serves 55 million HTTP requests per second on average.
Before you get started, we recommend reviewing Concepts to learn about key concepts related to using different Cloudflare products.
Additional resources
Refer to the list below for additional Cloudflare resources.
- Cloudflare blog ↗
- Cloudflare's Go library ↗
- Cloudflare system status ↗
- Cloudflare Radar ↗
- Cloudflare TV ↗
- Terraform ↗
Contents
142 pages mirrored from the Cloudflare documentation for fundamentals.
Pages
- Accounts
- Cloudflare's API
- Concepts
- Get started
- Domains
- Members and permissions
- RSS Feeds
- OAuth Applications on Cloudflare
- Organizations
- Performance
- Reference
- Security
- User profiles
Accounts
- Account security
- Add abuse contact
- Audit Logs - version 2
- Allow Cloudflare access
- Set up SSO
- Leaked Password Notifications
- Manage active sessions
- Review audit logs - v1
- SCIM provisioning
- Provision with Authentik
- Provision with Microsoft Entra
- Provision with Okta
- SCIM troubleshooting
- Secure compromised account
- Zone holds
- Change Super Administrator
- Create account
- Find account and zone IDs
Cloudflare's API
- Get started
- Account API tokens
- Get Origin CA keys
- Create API token
- Get Global API key (legacy)
- Token formats
- How to
- API token template URLs
- Control API Access
- Create tokens via API
- Make API calls
- Restrict tokens
- Roll tokens
- Reference
- API deprecations
- GraphQL API
- Rate limits
- API token permissions
- REST API
- SDKs
- API token templates
- Wrangler API
- Troubleshooting
Concepts
- Accounts, zones, and profiles
- Cloudflare IP addresses
- How Cloudflare DNS works
- Traffic flow through Cloudflare
Domains
- Add multiple sites via automation
- Onboard a domain
- Change your domain version
- Manage subdomains
- Move a domain between Cloudflare accounts
- Pause Cloudflare
- Redirect one domain to another
- Remove a domain
- Star domains
Members and permissions
RSS Feeds
OAuth Applications on Cloudflare
Organizations
- Organizations for Enterprise
- Organizations for MSSP and Distributors
- Limitations and troubleshooting
- Manage members
- Manage organizations
- Policy sharing
- Set up
Performance
- Improve SEO
- Maintenance mode
- Minimize downtime
- Optimize site speed
- Prepare for surges or spikes in web traffic
- Test speed
Reference
- Account and domain management best practices
- /cdn-cgi/ endpoint
- Cloudflare Ray ID
- Cloudflare crawlers
- Cloudy AI agent (beta)
- Connection limits
- Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood
- Error responses
- Glossary
- Cloudflare and Google Analytics
- Cloudflare HTTP headers
- Markdown for Agents
- Migration guides
- SCIM v1 to v2 Migration
- Network Layers
- Network ports
- Partners
- Policies
- Cloudflare Cookies
- Compliance documentation
- Content Security Policies (CSPs)
- Project Cybersafe Schools
- Delivering Videos with Cloudflare
- Licenses
- Redirects
- Abuse
- Customer abuse report obligations
- Blocked Content
- Complaint types
- Providing specific URLs
- Review abuse policies
- View and submit reports
- Scans and penetration testing policy
- SDK ecosystem support policy
- TCP connections
- Troubleshooting
- Under Attack mode
Security
- Scan for PCI compliance
- Prevent DDoS attacks
- Protect your origin server
- Recovering from a hacked site
- Secure your website
- Under a DDoS attack?