Does updating nameservers to Cloudflare cause a downtime?

[user298]

I’m trying to move my nameservers to cloudflare. Namecheap has a weird way to change nameservers. Anyone tried that before?

And, does changing this cause website downtime?

[epic.network]

Welcome to the Cloudflare Community.

Plenty of people move their nameservers from Namecheap to Cloudflare all the time. I don’t know what you construe as:

@user298

a weird way to change nameservers

When done correctly there need not be any downtime.

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