CF suddenly slowing my phpbb forum

What is the name of the domain?

What is the error number?

n/a

What is the issue you’re encountering

Whenever CF is un-paused, I get a delay after clicking on anything within my site (e.g., to see a post, go to a particular forum, etc.). I’ve had Cloudflare for several months, and all was working fine. Without making any known changes, this behavior started around July 3 or 4.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Diagnosed with my hosting service and discovered that whenever I pause Cloudflare, the issue goes away. It’s a direct cause and effect. When Cloudflare is active, my site has delays; when Cloudflare is paused, my site has no delays.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Just go to the carpokes.com and click on any topic and you’ll see it take 1 to 3 seconds to jump to that page.

If I stop proxying the CNAME for carpokes.com, this also resolves the issue, but then I don’t get the benefits of CF. I upgraded (paid in full) for the pro plan but cannot submit a ticket. And this topic seems greyed out, so not sure if anyone can even see it.

I’ve had to pause CF due to this issue, so you will no longer see the problem if you go to the site. The minute I unpause CF, however, I get a 2+ second delay before first byte.

The format of this community is new to me. Is anyone even seeing my posts here?

My ticket number is 01638770 if helpful to any support members reading this.

Still hoping to get a response on my support ticket or this post. I had to pause Cloudflare on my site to avoid hobbling it, and will unfortunately need to move off the service altogether if my ticket and this post go unanswered.