What is CloudFlare? #

Cloudflare is a service that hosts your domain and helps improve the security, performance, and reliability of websites that are connected to the internet. Before any site can officially "go live", it is crucial its domain is on Cloudflare.

Getting the DNS moved over to Cloudflare: #

1. 1. Go to Cloudflare and select "sign up" in the upper right corner
2. 2. Click "add a website", make sure it is the FREE option
3. 3. Put email in and create a password
4. 4. Click "Get Started" once signed in on the home page
5. 5. Enter the domain of the website (no www.)
6. 6. Scroll down and click "Free" then continue
7. 7. Open the previous DNS hosting site (ex. In-Motion), and open your DNS. Put this screen and Cloudflare side by side
8. 8. Make sure everything looks right and nothing is missing
   • if something is missing (ex. on In-Motion, but not on Cloudflare) click "add record", and put in the respective fields and add those records
9. 9. Widen up and screenshot previous DNS hosting site (ex. In-Motion) for best practice
10. 10. Go back to Cloudflare, scroll down and click "continue"
11. 11. Scroll down and see where it says "Your Assigned Cloudflare Name servers", (ex. Gloria.ns.cloudflare.com and robert.ns.cloudflare.com)
12. 12. Go to the site where they currently have their domain NAME registrar company(ex. Namesilo)
13. 13. Then add additional name servers (ex. Gloria and Robert)
14. 14. Then get rid of the other two domains
15. 15. Go back to cloudflare, click the profile guy in the top right corner and select "account home"
16. 16. Click the main menu
17. 17. Click security center and then "manage account"- "Member"
18. 18. Add [Ask Support for Email Address], operator=include, type=all domains
19. 19. Scroll all the way down, continue to summary and then click "invite"