Anybody use Cloudflare?
 

Is it really just changing DNS records and voila?

The phone sex company I do shit for just implemented it at one of the other webbie's recommendation. I didn't do the initial set-up, but once the first few sites were added to Cloudflare, the rest were handed to me to do.

I literally would log into cloudflare, click "add a site." It does a scan of the sites vitals (current DNS, a records, etc.). Once the scan is finished, it asks you to confirm what it found, or add any it missed. After you click "ok" to that, you chose the plan from the drop-down menu, and then it tell's you to change the site's nameservers to theirs. So, I have Cloudflare open in one tab, and the registrar opened in another. Copy and paste the namerservers to the registrar, go back to the CF tab, click done, and that's it.

Now, we have W3 Total Cache on all of the sites, too, so there's an extra step to add the CF CDN to W3, but it's easy. Go to the W3 Total Cache "Extensions" menu, activate the Cloudflare extension, go into it's settings, and add your CF account info. Save. Done.


It's really quite simple. The biggest headache is having multiple tabs open and jumping back and forth between them, but anyone on here should be used to that anyway.

There are a LOT of optional settings and features that you're going to want to go through, but yeah, pretty much.

Yes. But if you have IP protected areas you have to add them as pass thru directories to avoid cloudflare IPs from messing that up.