I am newbie here and i try to understand the right way to drive my websites with Cloudflare in the context that is mine.
I need informations to better understand the field of possibility.
I manage my websites with a Plesk interface, until today I do not manage DNS of these websites via Plesk. I preferred to keep this control into my Registrar interface for comfort reasons.
Today i want to use Cloudflare CDN to increase my Pagespeed loading. So i installed Servershield By Cloudflare into my Plesk.
According to my discussions with the Plesk support team, as i don’t manage DNS into Plesk, it seem’s that Cloudflare doesn’t work at this moment. I already need confirmation on this point.
In any case, what is certain is that Cloudflare is not active for subdomains, as it’s displayed in Servershield By Cloudflare panel,.
So i tried an another way to make Cloudflare work. I directly recorded in my registrar interface the DNS Cloudflare Nameservers to one of my domaine website. Then by reading here and there recommended essential steps that I realized that it was still a different way of managing Cloudflare than with Servershield By Cloud Flare into Plesk. Tell me if I’m wrong.
I would like to avoid having to do all the recommended manipulations in the essential steps (IP list, Review your Performance settings …) and I was thinking that certainly with ServerShield by Cloudflare in Plesk all this tasks will be automatically done because it would be expected by this Plesk extension. Isn’t it ?
So finaly, may be it’s worth it that I assign the DNS management of my websites to Plesk to enjoy a certain comfort by using Servershield By Cloudflare, knowing that I will have about fifteen sites to integrate into Cloudflare… :-/
I hope I have been clear in my explanation, I hope someone can help me and correct me if my deductions are bad.
I’m new to Cloudflare and am also using Plesk. I’m just wanting if I follow the instructions in the link you posts if this will just change my website over to Cloudflare? The reason I ask is when I gave these instructions to my external IT department they said it would change our website and emails which would mean they wouldn’t look after any email issues. Sorry to ask a question within someone else’s post but I couldn’t work out how to post a question. Thanks in advance.
I’m still looking for informations about differences between Servershield By Cloudflare extension in Plesk and using Cloudflare directly with my account.
I need to use Cloudflare as a CDN to increase my website page loading speed.
I manage fifteen websites and my prior is to facilitate the process as much as possible.
I have to decide if i use Cloudflare CDN from Plesk extension or directly from my Cloudflare account.
1- I understand that if i use ServerShield by Cloudflare Extension in Plesk, i have to transfer DNS Control first in Plesk, so configure Cloudflare servers name and that’s all and the service is set up without further adjustment. Isn’t it ?
2- If i decide to activate domain with a Cloudflare account, i have to manage DNS with my registrar UI, configure Cloudflare servers name and do all followings essential and optional steps notice on this page: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/201897700
I need you to help me make a decision and what will decide me is especially the easy side to make it work.
Can you already just tell me how implement essential steps:
Step 1: allowlist Cloudflare’s IP addresses
Step 2: Review your Performance settings
Step 3: Review your Security settings
Step 4: Choose an SSL mode
I don’t do this, as it’s not a problem where I host, nor has it been at other places I host.
2&3) The default settings are fine, but you can make adjustments as you get familiar with the system.