Very High traffic received from CF

What is the name of the domain?

agilelabs.co.za

What is the error message?

Very high connection rate and traffic from CF

What is the issue you’re encountering

Very high connection rate and traffic from CF

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Nothing changes much on my web server but CF servers are hammering my server. What changed?

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Look at the CPU usage on my server

Hi there,

It’s expected that most traffic hitting your origin comes from Cloudflare if the DNS records are proxied.

You can perform this action to make sure you’re not mitigating Cloudflare traffic by mistake:

…and this one to restore the visitors IP addresses:

Take care.

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Hi

Thank you so much for your detailed rely. My website is rather small and has not been updated in probably10 months. I have a constant upload of 3-5 mbs to cloudflare IPs (double checked this). This seems to be getting worse. In the last month I’ve uploaded almost 400Gb. It seems that little to no caching on the CF side takes place anymore. Almost all the traffic was cached by CF in the past. Only 50 mb was cached now. Something is going wrong here please see below:

Thank you again for assisting.
Kind regards

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Thanks again.

Hi I’ve added 2 rules, custom file type cache rule as per the documentation and it seems to have alleviated this. I’m concerned about .class and .css which might be different between translated pages? I’ll monitor.

Thank you so much for taking the time with this.

Kindest regards

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