Budget: 50 USD Deadline: 4 days
Hello, Roman,
Thank you for the detailed explanation of the situation.
From what you describe, it seems that your website heavily relies on active Cloudflare protection (probably WAF or Bot Management) to filter malicious or excessive traffic, preventing overload. However, when this protection is disabled, the site overloads and may freeze, indicating that the hosting or application cannot handle unfiltered traffic properly.
Here's how I see the problem:
Traffic overload without filtering:
Without active Cloudflare protection, all traffic, including bots and possibly malicious requests, directly reaches your server, leading to resource exhaustion and downtime.
SMS delivery blocked by Cloudflare rules:
When protection is enabled, some security rules (firewall, rate limiting, bot management) may block or interfere with your SMS gateway API requests, preventing SMS from being sent.
If you want, I can perform a full check of your Cloudflare setup, configure firewall and WAF rules, and ensure your SMS services operate smoothly without compromising site security.
Please let me know if you'd like me to proceed or if you have specific SMS providers or API details for review.
Best regards,
Georgeos Tutudakis