Is there a way to temporarily remove my site from Cloudflare without permanently deleting it?

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Is there a way to temporarily remove my site from Cloudflare without permanently deleting it?
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While Cloudflare doesn't offer a 'pause' feature, you can effectively achieve a temporary removal by setting your DNS records to point directly to your origin server. This disables Cloudflare's proxying. You can then revert the DNS records later to re-enable Cloudflare's protection.