How do I update my Cloudflare with Bluehost?

[ryanhyndman738]

I just received an email telling me to update my Cloudflare. How do I do this and how often?

[Xaq]

Are you using Cloudflare as your DNS provider? Does your website work?
Since Bluehost is a CF partner you better off configuring CF from your hosting (Bluehost) CPanel.

[ryanhyndman738]

Yes, you are probably right in contacting BlueHost. I use Coudflare for dns and yes it works with my website.

[Xaq]

Good to hear your website works.
Using Cloudflare directly needs action when something changes on your hosting side (like IP). You may received the email for such a change.

[ryanhyndman738]

Ok my website isn’t showing. Cloudfare sent me an email about the change being successful.

[Xaq]

You need to define an A record pointing to your server IP address and a CNAME for www to be an alias for your domain.

Also as I stated before you can delete your website from Cloudflare panel and enable it from your CPanel which is much easier.

[ryanhyndman738]

I told a bluehost agent everything. This is what they said.

[Xaq]

Then you just need to wait couple of hours.

[ryanhyndman738]

I can wait a couple hours. I just wanted to know if it was normal thing to happen.

[Xaq]

Yes it is normal. It takes time for NS records to propagate across the world.