Cloudflare Migration · Stoke-on-Trent
Cloudflare Migration in Stoke-on-Trent
Moving Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent?
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.
Working in Stoke-on-Trent
West Midlands
Stoke is a polycentric city of six towns rather than one centre, which matters practically — multi-site working is the norm for businesses here, not an exception to plan around.
Multi-site stock, ordering and networking for businesses operating across several town centres, plus ceramics ecommerce.
Sectors we work with in Stoke-on-Trent
- Ceramics
- Manufacturing
- Logistics
- Retail
- Digital
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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Cloudflare Migration in Stoke-on-Trent — 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 Staffordshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout West Midlands, including Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding Staffordshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Stoke-on-Trent businesses do you usually work with?
- Multi-site stock, ordering and networking for businesses operating across several town centres, plus ceramics ecommerce. Beyond that we work across Ceramics, Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail and Digital.
- Do you cover the areas around Stoke-on-Trent?
- Yes — we work throughout West Midlands, including Birmingham, Manchester, Lichfield. Stoke-on-Trent is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Staffordshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Cloudflare Migration in Stoke-on-Trent
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