So I added an A record using “@” for the name (like I had it on GoDaddy) but it seems that Cloudflare is automatically changing it to my domain name. The company I am using for my new website will not let me set my domain name as the primary domain because it can’t detect the “@” record pointing to their IP.
Is there any way to make the A record use “@” instead of my domain name? Thanks!
On GoDaddy, it actually listed @ in the records. Maybe it doesn’t make a difference but in the DNS settings it did show it that way whereas in Cloudflare it changes it to my domain and the webhost can’t detect the @ record. I have no idea…lol
Found it, thanks! It just looks different from the support article. Didn’t realize I could change it without the drop down, I just needed to click on it…duh!
I’m trying it now on the domain A record. Changing it to DNS only has made the site very very slow so far.
what do you mean? sorry I have some knowledge but it’s pretty basic. I’m kind of stuck in that spot where the host says it’s a Cloudflare issue, however I switched to Cloudflare because the host recommended it…lol
Your server’s performance is not related to this validation. What I was saying is that you should make sure that your site is reasonably fast without Cloudflare to begin with.
Changing that A record did work for them to be able to see my @ record and change my domain to the primary. Thanks so much!
As for the performance, it runs great, except when I make a change in Cloudflare. If I change a record it runs terribly for quite a while (yesterday it was for hours). Right now it’s running terribly since I changed that proxy to dns only. I don’t know…hopefully I won’t have to change anything else after this.
yeah I have no idea what to do. their support isn’t timely. They may not respond for a few hours and by then it might work fine. how do I run this test you show above?