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I recently started migrating a chunk of my personal domains to Cloudflare's registrar service, just to ensure that my renewal costs were being minimized and che
by brightball 6y ago
I recently started migrating a chunk of my personal domains to Cloudflare's registrar service, just to ensure that my renewal costs were being minimized and check out some of their other offerings.
I always thought of Cloudflare as mostly a WAF/CDN/DNS option but I was really shocked to see all of the available functionality that they provide. They already had some analytics available before this announcement. The option for workers as an edge computing option is great to know about as well. CNAME flattening is a really handy DNS feature too. I'm going to eventually migrate everything, but the built in email proxy that I've had with Namecheap to this point means that I've got to go setup a replacement for each domain.
But I didn't realize that they'd even created a remote friendly business networking service. Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway specifically. I'm a little shocked that I haven't seen more news about these two options because it seems like their usage would be skyrocketing right now.
- Ayesh 6y agoI was eager to transfer my domains, but they still require to set nameservers to CloudFlare's, so that's still not a completely free registry-cost registrar in my book. Having ~20 active domains, and a good registrar with reasonable prices is good enough and the potential $20-50 savings per year really isn't that meaningful if I have to move my nameservers to CloudFlare.
- brightball 6y agoOh definitely. It only makes sense if you’re planning to use their other services anyway.