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I’ve tried setting up a few sites using cloudflare and have always had issues with uptime, SSL, and other events I’m not sure how to categorize.
After messing with it over and over, I just quit using it all together.
How do you guys use it/set it up?
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Ensure that your SSL setting is set to Strict, if you have ssl running on your web server.
That’s really all you need. I leave everything else as default.
What specific issues were you facing? “Uptime” isn’t a cloudflare issue – that’s your hosting.
I would set it up using defaults, don’t bother with the WordPress plugin.
Change your nameservers where you registered your domain to give Cloudflare control of your DNS. Set the DNS A record of your domain to point to the IP address of your server. Make sure proxying is enabled and Cloudflare takes care of the rest.