Use Cloudflare with your hosting
With Cloudflare, your website stays on your hosting at Inleed, while Cloudflare handles DNS and the proxy. You move DNS there by changing the domain’s nameservers.
How to set up Cloudflare
- 1
Add the domain in Cloudflare.
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In Cloudflare, check that the A records for the domain and
wwwpoint to your hosting’s IP address.The IP address is in the client area on your hosting’s page, under Hosting Specifics.
- 3
Check that the MX, SPF and DKIM records for your email came along too.
Without them your email stops working. The values are in DNS records for Inleed email.
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Change the domain’s nameservers to the ones Cloudflare gives you.
- 5
In Cloudflare, set SSL/TLS to Full (strict).
How to know it worked
Done
Visitors reach your hosting through Cloudflare.
Waiting time
It can take up to 48 hours before the nameserver change is live everywhere. Meanwhile the website can switch between the old and the new server. It can’t be sped up.
If something doesn’t work
My email stopped working after the switch to Cloudflare
Why: The MX, SPF or DKIM records didn’t come along to Cloudflare.
What to do: Add them in Cloudflare.
DNS records for Inleed emailGood to know
- With Cloudflare’s proxy on, visitors see Cloudflare’s certificate.
- All DNS changes are now made at Cloudflare. Changes in the client area don’t affect the domain.
- A wildcard certificate from Inleed requires DNS to be at Inleed.
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Need more help?
Email [email protected] or call 08-519 70 666. Say which domain it concerns.