Can I bypass Cloudflare during maintenance to ensure my website remains accessible?

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Can I bypass Cloudflare during maintenance to ensure my website remains accessible?
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Yes, you can temporarily bypass Cloudflare by removing the DNS records pointing to Cloudflare's nameservers and directing them directly to your origin server. However, this will disable Cloudflare's security and performance benefits until maintenance is complete. This is generally not recommended unless absolutely necessary.