I recently activated my website with Cloudflare and tried setting up a subdomain to redirect my Searchie hub based on the instructions given and now my blue host website is gone and of course as a result I am unable redirect my hub
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What’s your domain name?
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its thewholeparenting
The domain thewholeparenting.com is not using Cloudflare.
Name Server: NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
Name Server: NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
Unrelated to anything you mentioned, your SPF record is invalid due to exceeded the maximum of ten allowable DNS lookups. You can see more in the dmarcian SPF Surveyor report.
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I had to change the nameserver back to bluehost to get access to my website again. I just need someone to support me at the moment so that I know i’m not making a mistake as I follow the instructions. I will change it back but I needed my customers to have access to the website as I waited for assistance
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Please post a screenshot of all your DNS records here, and black out the IP addresses.
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can you explain this a bit more please I don’t think I understand
The link I included in my previous reply contains a more detailed explanation that will account for all of the lookups in your SPF record.
The websitewelcome.com SPF starts at 9 lookups. Using it in an include mechanism adds the tenth. This means that the record will be invalidated if it uses any mechanisms that rely on DNS, such as a or mx.
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I am not very technical so pardon me if I’m asking silly questions but would this be because I tried searching for my website?
No. It has only to do with the questionable judgment of the publishers of the websitewelcome.com SPF record. To create a record intended for use with the include mechanism and have it contain nine lookups is most impractical.
SPF records are used by receiving mail servers to determine whether mail claiming to be from your domain is genuine. It has no bearing on any other challenges you may be facing, such as viewing your website. I intended its mention as an aside, since it will invariably lead to issues with any domain email you send. You will want to make note of it as something to revist once you sort out your primary concerns.
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Thank you for letting me know this. I am not sure why websitewelcome is related to my website. my website is thewholeparenting and I am hosted by bluehost
The websitewelcome.com is one of a near endless list of names used by the web hosting conglomerate, Newfold Digital that owns Bluehost.
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Well this is worrying.
Thanks again for flagging this with me. I appreciate it.
It needn’t be worrying. It can be helpful to work with someone who has a firm grasp on how all these things work, though, especially when choosing to use a bargain-priced high-volume hosting provider. Their support capacity is directly impacted by the design of their offering.
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Thank you. It seems I will need to. Thanks
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I can record 3 dns but when I give ping in cmd my ip is deferent example my ip is 84.32.10.45 but in ping show me 188.114.98.0 pleas help me
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