What to do if Cloudflare FTP is not working?
If you configure cloudflare.com to run on your website, when you try to connect to FTP in order to upload or download files, it might not work, the connection will remain stuck.
What you need to do in order to fix this issue is to enter the ip on the hostname field instead of using the domain name.
The ip of your domain can be found in cloudflare, where you have added the website there.
To see your websites’s ip, follow the steps
1. Login to cloudflare.com, go to the “DNS” tab.
2. Check the first fields, you will see an ip in this format:
A
admin
160.133.143.256
Auto
3. Your ip is on the third line.
Use that ip for the hostname field in your FTP client, like Filezilla.
That should work, you should now be able to connect to FTP to your domain.
To check if cloudflare is already active, open CMD from Windows and type “tracert yourdomain.com”.
You will see some ips, if cloudflare is active, you will see less ips and on the last entries, the cloudflare ips.
Overall, cloudflare is great to have as it hides the ip of your website, people will not be able to find your information that you used when you have registered your domain, and it will also boost the website’s speed a bit.
But it can cause small issues like the one here, with the FTP not working properly unless you do some custom tweaks.