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Cloudflare Migration · Cambridge

Cloudflare Migration in Cambridge

Moving Cambridge organisations onto Cloudflare, where proxying changes what your origin can see. Requests now arrive from Cloudflare rather than from visitors, so anything relying on the client address — logging, rate limiting, geographic rules, fraud checks — sees one of a handful of addresses until the origin is configured to read the real one.

Why this comes up

The problem

Every request now appears to come from the same few addresses, and rate limiting blocks everybody at once.

What you get

What we deliver

  • Origin configured to read the real visitor address from the forwarded header
  • Rate limiting, logging and geographic logic verified against the corrected address
  • DNS records audited during the move, since proxying is decided per record
  • Records that must not be proxied identified, such as mail and certain services
  • Caching rules set deliberately rather than left at defaults for dynamic content
  • Origin locked down so it only accepts traffic through Cloudflare

Want this scoped for your business in Cambridge?

Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what cloudflare migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.

Book a 30-minute call

Working in Cambridge

East of England

Cambridge has the densest deep-tech and biotech cluster in the country, so briefs here are frequently technical from the first conversation and the interesting problems are rarely the obvious ones.

Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling.

Sectors we work with in Cambridge

  • Technology
  • Life Sciences
  • Research
  • Higher Education
  • Biotech

What we work with

Technologies and platforms

  • Cloudflare
  • DNS
  • Nginx
  • Terraform

Who we work with

Industries we serve

  • SaaS businesses
  • Retail
  • Media companies
  • Financial services
  • Professional services

Why us

Why Cambridge businesses choose Asionis

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

How we work

  1. Step 1

    Free consultation

    A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.

  2. Step 2

    Proposal

    Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and support

    We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.

Cloudflare Migration in Cambridge — common questions

Why does the visitor address change?
Because Cloudflare terminates the connection and makes its own to your origin. The real address travels in a header instead, so any application logic reading the connection address gets Cloudflare's — which breaks silently rather than producing an error.
What breaks first?
Rate limiting and abuse controls, usually. They see all traffic as coming from a small number of addresses, so a limit intended per visitor triggers against everybody simultaneously — and it is not always obvious that this is what has happened.
Should every record be proxied?
No. Mail records must not be, and some services behave badly behind a proxy, so the migration involves deciding per record rather than enabling it everywhere — mail delivery failing after a DNS move is a common and avoidable outcome.
Does the origin need locking down?
It should be. If the origin address remains reachable directly, anyone who finds it can bypass everything Cloudflare provides, so restricting the origin to accept only Cloudflare traffic is what makes the protection meaningful rather than optional.
Do you work with businesses across Cambridgeshire?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East of England, including Cambridge and the surrounding Cambridgeshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of Cambridge businesses do you usually work with?
Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling. Beyond that we work across Technology, Life Sciences, Research, Higher Education and Biotech.
Do you cover the areas around Cambridge?
Yes — we work throughout East of England, including Norwich, Milton Keynes, London, Northampton. Cambridge is an urban area of roughly 150,000+, and we take on work across the wider Cambridgeshire region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about Cloudflare Migration in Cambridge

A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

Or reach us directly

07707 771599admin@asionis.com

Leicester, United Kingdom