{"id":18267,"date":"2026-09-26T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/how-to-pause-or-remove-cloudflare\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:26:30","password":"","slug":"how-to-pause-or-remove-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/how-to-pause-or-remove-cloudflare\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pause or Remove Cloudflare from Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> To <strong>pause<\/strong> Cloudflare temporarily, log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, choose your site, and on the <strong>Overview<\/strong> page click <strong>Pause Cloudflare on Site<\/strong>. Your site then loads directly from the server and your settings are kept. To <strong>remove<\/strong> 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.<\/div>\n<figure class=\"hy-fig hy-fig-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-1024x704.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Comparison of ways to turn off Cloudflare: pause, Development Mode and permanent removal\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border:1px solid #e5e7eb;border-radius:12px\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-1536x1056.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en-360x248.png 360w, https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/zasogooh\/2026\/09\/hyyat-cloudflare-pause-vs-remove-en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Seeing &#8220;Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed&#8221;?<\/strong> That is a different problem and pausing Cloudflare is not the fix: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/fix-please-unblock-challenges-cloudflare-com\/\">see the solution here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>When do you need to pause Cloudflare?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To find out whether a problem on your site is caused by Cloudflare or by the site itself.<\/li>\n<li>When your changes do not show because of caching, or you see errors such as 520, 521, 522 or 525.<\/li>\n<li>When moving your site to new hosting or changing DNS settings.<\/li>\n<li>When you no longer want to use Cloudflare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"pause\">Method 1: Pause Cloudflare from the Cloudflare dashboard (fastest)<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.cloudflare.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudflare dashboard<\/a> and choose your site.<\/li>\n<li>On the <strong>Overview<\/strong> page, scroll to <strong>Advanced Actions<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Pause Cloudflare on Site<\/strong> and confirm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The domain stays on Cloudflare, but traffic goes straight to your server without Cloudflare protection or caching. To turn it back on, click <strong>Resume Cloudflare on Site<\/strong> in the same place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lighter alternative:<\/strong> if the problem is only caching, enable <strong>Development Mode<\/strong> under <strong>Caching<\/strong>. It bypasses the cache for 3 hours without turning off protection.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"remove\">Method 2: Remove Cloudflare permanently<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>At your domain registrar (the client area if your domain is with Hyyat Host), change the <strong>nameservers<\/strong> back to your hosting nameservers instead of the Cloudflare ones. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/change-domain-nameservers\/\">how to change your domain nameservers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the change to propagate; it can take from a few hours up to 48 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Then in the Cloudflare dashboard choose your site and, under <strong>Overview \u2192 Advanced Actions<\/strong>, click <strong>Remove Site from Cloudflare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important:<\/strong> do not remove the site from Cloudflare before restoring your nameservers, or your website and email may stop working until the change completes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cpanel\">Method 3: Disable Cloudflare from cPanel<\/h2>\n<p>If you activated Cloudflare through the Cloudflare plugin in cPanel:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to cPanel.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Software<\/strong> section, click <strong>Cloudflare<\/strong>.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/08\/08\/Screenshot-8_8_201712_08_49PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Sign in here<\/strong>.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/08\/12\/Screenshot-8_12_201712_39_19PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Enter the email and password you registered with, then click <strong>Log in<\/strong>.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/08\/12\/Screenshot-8_12_201712_44_27PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open the <strong>Domain<\/strong> tab at the top.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/08\/12\/Screenshot-8_12_20174_00_38PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down and click <strong>Remove domain from Cloudflare<\/strong>.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/08\/12\/Screenshot-8_12_201712_51_55PM.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Related tutorials<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/what-is-cloudflare\/\">What is Cloudflare?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/activate-cloudflare-from-cpanel\/\">How to sign up and activate Cloudflare from cPanel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related service: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/shared-hosting-2\/\">fast, secure web hosting<\/a> from Hyyat Host, with 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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