--- title: How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website description: "**In short:** To **pause** Cloudflare temporarily, log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, choose your site, and on the **Overview** page click **Pause Cloudflare on Site**. Your site then loads directly from the server and your settings are kept. To **remove**…" url: "https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/how-to-pause-or-remove-cloudflare/" updated: "2026-10-21" category: Cloudflare --- # How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website **In short:** To **pause** Cloudflare temporarily, log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, choose your site, and on the **Overview** page click **Pause Cloudflare on Site**. Your site then loads directly from the server and your settings are kept. To **remove** it permanently, point your nameservers back to your hosting, then remove the site from Cloudflare. If you enabled it from cPanel, follow the screenshots below. ![Comparison of ways to turn off Cloudflare: pause, Development Mode and permanent removal](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-1024x704.png) **Seeing "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed"?** That is a different problem and pausing Cloudflare is not the fix: [see the solution here](https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/fix-please-unblock-challenges-cloudflare-com/). ## When do you need to pause Cloudflare? - To find out whether a problem on your site is caused by Cloudflare or by the site itself. - When your changes do not show because of caching, or you see errors such as 520, 521, 522 or 525. - When moving your site to new hosting or changing DNS settings. - When you no longer want to use Cloudflare. ## Method 1: Pause Cloudflare from the Cloudflare dashboard (fastest) 1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/) and choose your site. 2. On the **Overview** page, scroll to **Advanced Actions** in the sidebar. 3. Click **Pause Cloudflare on Site** and confirm. The domain stays on Cloudflare, but traffic goes straight to your server without Cloudflare protection or caching. To turn it back on, click **Resume Cloudflare on Site** in the same place. **Lighter alternative:** if the problem is only caching, enable **Development Mode** under **Caching**. It bypasses the cache for 3 hours without turning off protection. ## Method 2: Remove Cloudflare permanently 1. At your domain registrar (the client area if your domain is with Hyyat Host), change the **nameservers** back to your hosting nameservers instead of the Cloudflare ones. See [how to change your domain nameservers](https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/change-domain-nameservers/). 2. Wait for the change to propagate; it can take from a few hours up to 48 hours. 3. Then in the Cloudflare dashboard choose your site and, under **Overview → Advanced Actions**, click **Remove Site from Cloudflare**. **Important:** do not remove the site from Cloudflare before restoring your nameservers, or your website and email may stop working until the change completes. ## Method 3: Disable Cloudflare from cPanel If you activated Cloudflare through the Cloudflare plugin in cPanel: 1. Log in to cPanel. 2. In the **Software** section, click **Cloudflare**. ![How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website - screenshot 1](https://hyyathost.com/images/2017/08/08/Screenshot-8_8_201712_08_49PM.png) 3. Click **Sign in here**. ![How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website - screenshot 2](https://hyyathost.com/images/2017/08/12/Screenshot-8_12_201712_39_19PM.png) 4. Enter the email and password you registered with, then click **Log in**. ![How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website - screenshot 3](https://hyyathost.com/images/2017/08/12/Screenshot-8_12_201712_44_27PM.png) 5. Open the **Domain** tab at the top. ![How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website - screenshot 4](https://hyyathost.com/images/2017/08/12/Screenshot-8_12_20174_00_38PM.png) 6. Scroll down and click **Remove domain from Cloudflare**. ![How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website - screenshot 5](https://hyyathost.com/images/2017/08/12/Screenshot-8_12_201712_51_55PM.png) ## Related tutorials - [What is Cloudflare?](https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/what-is-cloudflare/) - [How to sign up and activate Cloudflare from cPanel](https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/activate-cloudflare-from-cpanel/) Related service: [fast, secure web hosting](https://www.hyyat.com/en/shared-hosting-2/) from Hyyat Host, with support that replies within 24 hours. **Related guides** - [How to Sign Up and Activate Cloudflare from cPanel](https://www.hyyat.com/knowledgebase/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%ac%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%88-%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%b9%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%ae%d8%af%d9%85%d9%87-cloudflare/) - [What Is Cloudflare? 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