Add your website to Clouldflare DNS using the free tier

Cloudflare free tier is too cool not to use for your websites. It provides DNS management, free optimizations, DDOS protection, free caching and quick response times. Here’s how to setup a website.

• Login to Cloudflare, add your website, follow insturctions.
• Change the NS of your domain to the two Cloudflare ones. Wait for 10 mins to 1 hour for propagation.
• Cloudflare emails when your NS has propagated.
• Go to DNS management, add the A name (link with the IP) and then a CNAME for WWW to your URL without www. Example:
• A record, example.com, IP –> Save
• CNAME, www, example.com

Leave both fields ‘proxied’

• On your webserver, ensure you have certificate setup.
• On the SSL/TLS panel, change the mode to “Full (Strict). If you have issues, change them back to ‘Flexible’ and investigate.
• On SSL/TS –> Edge Certificates turn on HTTPS, Set Min TLS to 1.2, Turn on TLS 1.3, Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
• On Speed –> Optimization –> Content Optimization –> Turn on all free features. Test turning on “Auto Minify” and verify you have no errors when using the website.

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