I have my domain name registered with Cloudflare but I want to remove my site and start a fresh. I don’t want to change my domain registrar. I just want to clear the entire site and start a fresh. Need to know if i do remove a site will it cancel Cloudflare as my registrar. I am not trying to cancel my domain registration just the website and all the setting to start a fresh. Does Remove a site Cancel my registration with Cloudflare for that domain name.
Can this be done
No, it does not.
One issue you’ll face in removing & re-adding is ending up with incorrect DNS records and that can be painful to work around.
What issue are you facing that is causing you to want to remove & restart? We can probably fix that here pretty quickly. Can you share the name of the domain?
This is the error i am getting when i try to go to the website:
Unsupported protocol
The client and server don’t support a common SSL protocol version or cipher suite.
The problem is that I think with this site I once had a Cloudflare certificate on it at another hosting. But I don’t mind deleting the site and starting again so if it has new dins that would not matter I only need to get it to resolve at the current hosting. I am setting it up like a new site. so it will not matter. My question is will remove a site. Delete Cloudflare as my registrar for this site.
Thanks for you previous answer.
Thank you. Can you go to https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/ssl-tls/edge-certificates and at the bottom select Enable Universal SSL?
No, you can take that approach, just remember the value of the DNS A and CNAME records to easily recreate them and you should be good to go.
Thanks a million that worked! You are very helpful. One question for you how did you know how to solve this problem. Is there a tool you use or you just knew the error.
Thanks again
That told me there was an issue with ssl/tls. From there, I noticed ssl was set to Full (strict) which is the best setting for security, but I noticed universal ssl was disabled & there was no edge certificate issued meaning the Full (strict) setting would not work properly.
And I am delighted to help. Stop by again if questions come up.
And, btw @RealOG when looking at this yesterday when I thought it was a 526 error, I noticed the certificate on your origin server expires May 3. If that expires the Full (Strict) setting will cause your site to fail.
Quick Fix idea 1 in this 526 tip give instructions on how to check the expiry date of your origin cert
I received this reply to that curl
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=browardhvacfl.com
* start date: Feb 28 20:59:00 2023 GMT
* expire date: May 3 01:39:51 2023 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "browardhvacfl.com" matched cert's "browardhvacfl.com"
* issuer: C=US; ST=California; L=San Francisco; O=Cloudflare, Inc.; OU=Gateway Intermediate ECC Certificate Authority
* SSL certificate verify ok.
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