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Benefits of CloudFlare service

  1. Website http and https links supported with no restrictions

  2. domain works with www and without

  3. website protection from DDoS attacks

  4. Faster content delivery by using CDN

  5. Cached cached pages and content allowing faster load of pages.

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  1. Signup or login into your CloudFlare account:
    https://www.cloudflare.com

  2. Click on Add a site

  3. Enter your domain name that you want to use for your website and click Add a site button to continue:

  4. On the next step scroll down and choose free subscription - it is enough for the beginning

  5. Cloudflare will scan existing DNS records, once completed make sure to remove record with your main domain in Name column and A in Type column:

  6. Add new record with CNAME in type, @ in name and cloud.connect.scrile.com in Target. Make sure to keep proxy status turned on.

  7. Add new record with CNAME in type, www in name and @ in Target. Make sure to keep proxy status turned on.

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  8. Once completed you have to replace NS records at your domain name registrar (ex. GoDaddy / Google Domains / etc), follow the link at instructions on cloudflare and put assigned values. The screenshot below is an example, you have to follow your values

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    page and assign new nameservers.

    Here is an example how it is done on GoDaddy (for other registrars follow this procedure may differ):

    1. Do do My Products page: https://account.godaddy.com/products?go_redirect=disabled

    2. Choose your domain name and go to DNS settings page.

    3. Scroll down to Nameservers section and click Change

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    4. Click on Enter my own nameservers

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    5. Put nameservers suggested by cloudflare and click save, confirming risk operation.

  9. On cloudflare click Done, check nameservers. Wait up to 24 hour for new settings propagated. Once everything is done, you will get confirmation on cloudflare domain overview page.

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  10. Once everything is done, you will get confirmation on cloudflare domain overview page.

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