Site run from cache when origin server return 5xx errors

[yhuang1]

Good day Cloudflare Community,
I got question regarding what’s the best practice to make my site still run/show up when origin server return 5xx errors.

Researched online a little bit and all I got is run from Cloudflare workers.

I am wondering if there is a way to handle it from Cloudflare cache?
Like the following cache rule setup and turn on when origin server return 500 error?

Thanks for all your help.

[mcorreia]

Hi there,

For statuses from 520 to 527 you can enable Always Online under Caching > Configuration and Cloudflare will be serving a static version of the website wile the origin recovers.

Take care.

[yhuang1]

Thanks mcorreia,
How about for the new users that during origin server crash time? I guess they will see site crash information?