---
title: "Use Cloudflare with your hosting"
url: "https://inleed.com/helpcenter/use-cloudflare-with-hosting"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-11-06"
category: "Domains and DNS"
type: "guide"
---

# 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.

2. In Cloudflare, check that the A records for the domain and `www` point to your hosting’s IP address.

   The IP address is in the [client area](https://login.inleed.net) 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](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-dns-records).

4. Change the domain’s nameservers to the ones Cloudflare gives you.

   [How to change the nameservers](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/change-nameservers)

5. In Cloudflare, set **SSL/TLS** to **Full (strict)**.

## How to know it worked

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 email](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-dns-records)

## Good 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.

## Related guides

- [Change the nameservers for your domain](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/change-nameservers)
- [DNS records for Inleed email](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-dns-records)
- [The SSL certificate can’t be created or renewed](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/ssl-certificate-cannot-be-created)