# Using Discourse with Cloudflare: Best Practices

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-cloudflare-best-practices/293405>\
**Category:** Self-Hosting\
**Tags:** how-to, cloudflare\
**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-cloudflare-best-practices/293405 "2024-01-30T02:56:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaing/32/251089_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MichaIng)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-cloudflare-best-practices/293405/22 "2025-05-02T17:43:51Z")

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Is it really true that WebSockets support should be enabled in Cloudflare?

Worked well for us without for years, and as far as I could find info here on the forum, Discourse does not make any use of WebSockets.

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