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Thoughts on Cloudflare?

• tiernano 3y ago
  I moved nearly all my domains (50+) to Cloudflare a few years back, saving me something like 200 quid a year from my old provider. Only domains outside cloudflare are my .ie domains, which are currently not supported and I think one or 2 others that haven't been supported yet. Handy to have the rest of the cloudflare services on there too.
  • ehPReth 3y ago
    thanks!
• jameshiew 3y ago
  Great but only so long as you want to use their nameservers. I had a domain with them that I wanted to use with AWS Route 53 nameservers which I was unable to - then I had to wait the standard ~60 days before I could transfer it out which caused a headache in the meantime.
  • ehPReth 3y ago
    oh that’s a major bummer they won’t let you customize NS records for domains you buy on their platform. not a huge deal for most of mine but some of them… thanks for the warning!
    • tiernano 3y ago
      You can set NS records for subdomains though... I have done this for a couple of domains where i have internal.<domainname> and that points at Route53. I also use Route53 for my Reverse IP lookups, since Cloudflare does not seem to support this (unless i missed something). On an related note, what does Route53 give you that you cant do on Cloudflare?
      • ehPReth 3y ago
        Ahh ok. That's not so bad. It's really only for one 'learning' domain or such where I set it elsewhere. But it's by far the minority of the time that I didn't just use Google's built in one (or used GCP's) for the API which Cloudflare has