website hosted by wordpress.com often goes offline – message says 'not available

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  ticunbrasil · Member · Feb 26, 2013 at 9:32 pm

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  http://extendedtechniques.com/ website hosted by wordpress.com often goes offline – message says ‘not available’

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 26, 2013 at 10:42 pm

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  It looks like you’re using CloudFlare. Despite CloudFlare’s reputation, this is a common problem of using a cloud-based infrastructure (CloudFlare) as the front for another cloud-based infrastructure (WordPress.com).

  We don’t support using CloudFlare for your WordPress.com site, for several reasons:

  1. Their method of pointing your domain to your WordPress.com site requires using an IP address or specific server, which we don’t support. Your site does not have a static IP address or specific server. Instead, requests to load your site are shifted between several IP addresses and servers in order to balance the demand on servers. This means that specifying an IP address or server won’t work.

  2. The features of their cloud-based infrastructure simply duplicate the infrastructure already being provided to you by WordPress.com, such as:

  * CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) that deliver your site content from the location closest to your visitor
  * Caching/optimizing files for faster loading times
  * Security measures protecting your site from denial of service attacks and other forms of hacking/malware
  * Site stats, including search engine terms and incoming link referrers, that are easier to read than Google Analytics

  You can direct your domain back to your WordPress.com blog by changing your name servers to:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  If your domain is registered with us, you can change your name servers following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/change-name-servers/

  If there are other features you were interested in using via CloudFlare, besides the ones listed above, can you let me know more about what you’re trying to do? I’ll be happy to help you learn more about the equivalent feature on WordPress.com.