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I’m looking at setting up Cloudflare outside of Bluehost. A few questions:
1) Given Bluehost has an integration where all of its sites go through Cloudflare, do I need to have Bluehost turn that off before doing this?
2) If I run into SSL issues is the answer to get an SSL cert through Cloudflare?
3) If I run into issues with setting up Cloudflare is rolling it back as easy as just switching back to the Bluehost nameservers.
Thanks I’m advance.
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Setting up CF is super easy. Just change your nameservers, and 99% of the time that’s it, done. CF does a good job of finding and importing DNS settings on its own. To be safe, just export your zone file and then you can import it into CF directly.
1 – No. Its not automatic. They just have a plugin that helps inexperienced users connect. I would not recommend using it.
2 – No. Solve the at the root, which is your server.
3 – Yes
1. Dump Bluehost. They suck bad. Spend a few extra dollars to get reliable hosting.
You don’t need any Bluehost integration to run Cloudflare. Just use Cloudflare itself. It is in fact very deceptive of hosting providers to offer this integration as some kind of a feature. It is just their way of doing things. And it is more opaque than doing it yourself.