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Cloudflare Setup · Cambridge

Cloudflare Setup in Cambridge

Configuring Cloudflare properly for Cambridge businesses, rather than pointing the domain at it and assuming that is the job done. The default settings are deliberately conservative — most of the protection, caching and performance benefit only arrives once the rules are set for your particular site.

Why this comes up

The problem

Cloudflare gets switched on and left at defaults, so the business believes it is protected and accelerated while almost nothing is actually being cached or blocked.

What you get

What we deliver

  • DNS migrated with every record verified against the previous provider before switching
  • Cache rules per path, so assets cache hard and transactional pages never do
  • Firewall rules tuned to your traffic, blocking automated abuse without catching customers
  • Rate limiting on login and form endpoints, which is where credential attacks land
  • SSL mode set to full strict rather than flexible, which is a common and quiet misconfiguration
  • Page rules and redirects consolidated, replacing whatever accumulated at the origin

Want this scoped for your business in Cambridge?

Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what cloudflare setup 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
  • Cloudflare WAF
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Nginx

Who we work with

Industries we serve

  • Ecommerce
  • Professional services
  • Media and publishing
  • SaaS platforms
  • Charities

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 Setup in Cambridge — common questions

We already use Cloudflare. Is there anything to do?
Usually a great deal. The most frequent findings are SSL left on flexible mode, no meaningful cache rules, and the firewall untouched at defaults. Being on Cloudflare and being configured on Cloudflare are different states.
What is wrong with flexible SSL?
It encrypts between the visitor and Cloudflare but not between Cloudflare and your server, so traffic crosses the internet unencrypted while the padlock suggests otherwise. Full strict is the correct setting, and it requires a valid certificate on the origin.
Will the firewall block real customers?
Badly tuned rules will, which is why they go in monitoring mode first and get reviewed against real traffic before enforcing. Blocking a paying customer is worse than letting a bot through.
Is the free plan enough?
For many businesses, yes — and we will say so rather than pushing an upgrade. Paid tiers earn their cost for image optimisation, advanced firewall rules and dedicated attack protection, not as a general default.
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 Setup 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