cPanel AutoSSL does not fail “because of Cloudflare” as one indivisible problem. A failed run means one requested hostname could not prove control, the configured certificate authority could not authorize issuance, or the resulting certificate was not installed where the origin actually serves it. Preserve the exact ...
A Fail2ban ban can look successful while blocking nothing. Behind Cloudflare or another reverse proxy, the web server may receive the proxy as the TCP peer, recover a visitor address from a trusted header, write that visitor into a log, and then ask a host firewall to ...