How Cloudflare rate-limits + VPN traffic produced intermittent 429s and the header routing tweak that stopped false throttling for remote users
When deploying secure and high-performance web services, Cloudflare often plays a critical role in handling threats, maintaining uptime, and mitigating unnecessary load through mechanisms like rate-limiting. However, what happens when Cloudflare’s own protection mechanisms unintentionally begin targeting legitimate users? This is exactly what happened to remote users of a VPN-enabled platform who had their traffic …









