Error 1016 Ray ID: 91fb7bbc640096f4 • 2025-03-13 12:20:05 UTC Origin DNS error
What is the issue you’re encountering
Played around with R2 storage lost my entire website, website down
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
I thought i’d play around with R2 storage to see what it was like now i’ve lost my entire website, my website is down and i can’t revert back to the working version, probably never going to play about with R2 storage ever again never knew it would update and change my DNS records playing around with R2 Storage, never came with any real warnings it was going to do this to me.
What are the steps to reproduce the issue?
Created a bucket and tried using settings to troubleshoot getting it tow work, now my website is down and i can’t get it back online
If you created a “custom domain” for the bucket that matches an existing DNS record (such as your apex domain or www) then Cloudflare will create a DNS record for the hostname, replacing any that exists, to point to the bucket.
Remove the custom hostname from R2 and restore the DNS record you had there originally manually.
I’ve already tried to restore, it won’t allow me to delete the R2 bucket, there are no such options of restore on cloudflares control panel, i’d love if there was that option, there is no restore button, and it will not allow me to delete the bucket. I don’t know if i created a custom domain i’m new to R2 Buckets i’ll probably never use this bucket feature in the future knowing it’ll do this to me without warning. I don’t know what it did, my website is down.
Ok i deleted the bucket my website is still down, what happened why did messing with options in the bucket change my DNS records, it should at least tell me it’s going to do this, these changes can take 48hrs to troubleshoot, very annoying cloudflare doesn’t tell you they’re going to change my DNS records for experimneting with an R2 bucket. Now i have no idea what it has changed, deleting my bucket changed nothing my website is still down.
Likely you set your domain name as a custom domain for the bucket. All you need to do is put the DNS record for the apex domain back as it was. If you don’t know what it was, get the information from your web host.
I’ve head of A Records before i’ve not heard of apex domain before, what is an apex domain with cloudflare, the answers i’m being provided are raising more questions.
R2 bucket system makes itself to appear external outsource so for it to start changing internal settings is beyond irritating. I have no idea what it changed, i have no idea what it updated, i haven’t looked at my DNS records in years, so for cloudflare to just start updating and changing settings without it telling me to make backsups i never change is beyond extremly annoying
It will only have changed the DNS record if you ask it to use your domain name as a custom hostname, in which case it needs to change the DNS. Did you do that? If not, that’s not the reason your DNS record is missing.
Whatever the cause, just put the record back. It may be in the audit log if you deleted the record. Otherwise, ask your host for it.
(As I say, I’m assuming the CNAME for www points to the domain, but you’ve not confirmed that yet)
I don’t know what cloudflare did when i tried to setup my R2 Bucket i just changed a few settings to try and get it working now my entire website is down, i don’t know what cloudflare changed, and there’s no button that will allow me to restore. A little annoying that changes that take 48hrs doesn’t come with any real warnings to backup
They don’t, DNS changes take effect almost instantly on Cloudflare and the TTL for proxied records is only 5 minutes.
You don’t know what you did so I can’t tell you exactly what happened. I’ve explained what may have happened and how to fix it. I suggest you just add the record back as that’s the only way to get your site back up.
I don’t know how they were before as cloudflare didn’t tell me to backup anything as they should have, now everything is down and i’ve lost my website now i’ll need to revert everything all cause i wanted to see what all this stupid cloudflare bucket nonsense was and now i’m finding out it’s a snake pit
My webhosts are useless they can’t tell you anything, it’s like having a conversation with a tree, spent 2hrs with them one day with them being unable to understand the concept of basic .htaccess Rewrite Rules
I know how to setup cloudflare with my website but changes take 48hrs, cloudflare changing DNS settings without backup warnings is beyond lame. Cloudflare forcing me to wipe my entire settings with my webhost instead of any real warning sign is beyond lame
I understand you did something and the result wasn’t as you expected so you are frustrated, but your site could have been back up an hour ago. I can’t keep repeating myself so I’ll leave it there.
