How do I link my website to Cloudflare?

In this guide, you will learn how to link up your website to Cloudflare. Aquatis strongly encourages customers to link their website to Cloudflare as it improves your website and application performance/security. Cloudflare is free.

Step 1

Navigate to Cloudflare and select the Sign-Up button on the navigation bar.

Step 2

Fill in your email and desired password and select the Create Account box.

The information you submit on Cloudflare does not need to match your Aquatis account billing information.

Step 3

Select "Get started" for the first option, Cloudflare for Infrastructure.

Step 4

Type in the Domain that you would like to link to Cloudflare.

If your website is https://www.yourdomain.com, do not include https:// or www. in your domain while entering. For the example here, you would only put yourdomain.com.

Step 5

Select the Free plan at the bottom, then select Continue.

You are free to purchase any plan you want, please note that Aquatis is not affiliated with Cloudflare in terms of support/sales.

Step 6

Wait while Cloudflare scans for DNS records. Once it completes, it will display a list of DNS records you currently have. Scroll down to the bottom for now and select Continue.

Step 7

Record the name servers provided to you from Cloudflare. Login to your domain registrar and change the names of servers to the ones provided by you from Cloudflare. In this example, they are eloise.ns.cloudflare.com & emerson.ns.cloudflare.com. Once you are done, select "Done, check nameservers".

The name servers provided on your end may/will be different from this example. So be sure to read your screen to verify!

Using Aquatis as your domain registrar? We have a link to our article here on how to do so!

Step 8

Configure recommendations based on your preference. If you are not sure what to do, select skip recommendations for now.

Step 9

Wait 24 hours while your name servers are propagated over to Cloudflare. Once you get an email from Cloudflare saying your website is active. You are all set!