Deactivate Uninstall Cloudflare on WordPress

  • Hi All

    I was looking for support on how to uninstall cloudflare on my site, but could not find any good reply’s in the forum. I was a bit worried on the impact it will have, but it worked out well – so I decided to post this thread on what steps worked for me in case it helps the next person:

    Steps I took to Uninstall Cloudflare – Note I used W3 Total Cache with Cloudflare:
    0. Backup everything ??
    1. Deactivated the Cloudflare Extension under Performance_Extensions in WordPress:
    2. Updated my Hosting Domain Nameservers back to the default nameservers (Hosting Domains -> Management).

    3. Wait up to 24 hrs – at this stage the site should still work as Cloudflare is still active and still acts as a Proxy if a user is directed to Cloudflare. Once the DNS reflects however, Users will go directly to your site and bypass Cloudflare.

    4. Once the domain resolves Cloudflare is no longer in play.
    At this stage you can go to Cloudflare and you should see traffic down to zero.

    5. Then go to Advanced Options and choose Remove (I paused it first and confirmed access, email FTP etc. is still working)

    Job Done – hope this helps someone.

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  • Thanks! Just deactivating the plugin results in a broken unreachable site and no idea how to fix this, so perhaps is removing Cloudflare completely is a good choice, so thanks for these steps ;).

    Thread Starter onewordpresscustomer

    (@onewordpresscustomer)

    Cool ?? I think the trick is updating your nameservers first (Step2) to bypass Cloudflare

    If the site still works after 24 hrs, then it is safe to deactivate Cloudflare (If Not – you can change the nameservers again)

    Thread Starter onewordpresscustomer

    (@onewordpresscustomer)

    PS:

    I suspect the performance culprit I had was the Automatic WordPress CRON that ran everytime Cloudflare visited the site. This is definitely also an issue if spammers try to attack you and wordpress runs its Cron at every visit.

    Anyways – I followed the below steps to set-up the WordPress Cron Manually to run every hour:

    https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/real-cron-job/

    My Site is stable for a week now and I replicated this to 2 other sites as well.

    Thank you for clear explanation, dude ??

    Thank you, dude! This is really useful!

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