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Hello,
Few months back, one of my websites, hosted/proxied on CF, had issue with outbound mail getting dropped(not even marked as spam).
Upon investigation, I found that another site on same CF IP, as my site, was hacked and blacklisted. Some spam blacklist vendors, not only lookup the blacklisted domain, but also blacklist the IP, the domain resolves to(in this case CF IP). CF hosts thousands of domains per IP(atleast, for free tier).
I had then resolved the issue by moving to paid tier.
Now, talking about the blacklisted domain, the hosting provider would have been notified about the domain(by customer/abuse), if the domain was pointing to their hosting infrastructure(without CF). So, with CF, hacked sites are unattended for days. Usually, post a hack, domain takes few days to go into several blacklists. If I recollect correctly, the blacklisted site was hosted on Godaddy.
CF does not have any mechanism, to keep track of blacklisted domains and moving such domains away to separate IP buckets. I hope they do this one day or may be they already have.
So, you are at the mercy of security of other sites hosted on same IP bucket of CF(free tier).
I assume that this is the case with SEO. If the IP bucket on your CF domain, hosts a malicious site or a site which gets infected, SEO may be impacted.
So, maybe, it is better to choose CF paid plans.
Few months back, one of my websites, hosted/proxied on CF, had issue with outbound mail getting dropped(not even marked as spam).
Upon investigation, I found that another site on same CF IP, as my site, was hacked and blacklisted. Some spam blacklist vendors, not only lookup the blacklisted domain, but also blacklist the IP, the domain resolves to(in this case CF IP). CF hosts thousands of domains per IP(atleast, for free tier).
I had then resolved the issue by moving to paid tier.
Now, talking about the blacklisted domain, the hosting provider would have been notified about the domain(by customer/abuse), if the domain was pointing to their hosting infrastructure(without CF). So, with CF, hacked sites are unattended for days. Usually, post a hack, domain takes few days to go into several blacklists. If I recollect correctly, the blacklisted site was hosted on Godaddy.
CF does not have any mechanism, to keep track of blacklisted domains and moving such domains away to separate IP buckets. I hope they do this one day or may be they already have.
So, you are at the mercy of security of other sites hosted on same IP bucket of CF(free tier).
I assume that this is the case with SEO. If the IP bucket on your CF domain, hosts a malicious site or a site which gets infected, SEO may be impacted.
So, maybe, it is better to choose CF paid plans.
