Want to use cloudflare with out changing nameserver for server hosted in AWS

[gopi]

HI,

I’m planning add security to my website hosted in AWS and DNS is managing by some other DNS provider. i have existing ssl. As i’m thinking that changing the name servers will impact on email system, i might be wrong. Is there any way to add cloud-flare to my website without changing the nameservers.

Seeking for best answers.

Gopi

[fritex]

@gopi

As i’m thinking that changing the name servers will impact on email system

That is actually not a thing I think.

You can actually change your nameservers for your domain to Cloudflare or any other, the thing where you manage your DNS records for your mail (MX and other like mail.yourdomain.com) and other sub-domains is the thing you should be able to do.

I am not sure, but may I ask by what do you mean that it could impact or disrupt your current e-mail system?

I was changing nameservers from like Google → cPanel hosting provider → custom nameservers from my dedicated server → Cloudflare, and e-mail was still working well as expected …

Regarding any issues and how to propperly setup Cloudflare to make sure your e-mail continues to work, kindly check below article:

Email Troubleshooting

This tutorial covers the steps you should take if, when you change your domain to point to Cloudflare, you no longer receive emails to your domain. If you follow this tutorial and still need further help, please let us know what you have tried and share your domain name and, if possible, a redacted screenshot of your DNS records in Cloudflare. [Cloudflare Community Tutorial - Troubleshooting Email Delivery Issues] 1. Do you have the correct MX records set for your domain? You will…

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168876-Email-undeliverable-when-using-Cloudflare

How to prevent your emails from going to spam

As a website admin, you will likely be sending out emails to your customers or visitors for newsletters, account notifications, product updates, etc. Depending on the circumstances, you might start noticing your emails are ending up in customers’ spam/junk folders instead of their email inbox. This issue can be caused by a few things, and I’ll go into detail for each: Misconfigured DNS/absence of necessary records Poor domain reputation FAQ Misconfigured DNS/absence of necessary records For…

When you changes nameservers for your domain to Cloudflare, you can manage all the DNS records as needed on the Cloudflare dashboard → DNS tab.

The DNS App

This tutorial covers the most common settings in the DNS app of the Cloudflare Dashboard. [DNS Button] DNS Records [image] The DNS records section is where you can view, add and edit the DNS records for your site. You can also see which records are set to and . There are related tutorials available on: Adding DNS Records, Editing DNS Records and Step 3: Enabling the 'Orange Cloud' Cloudflare Nameservers [image] This is where you can view your assigned nameservers from …

Either, you can import all existing DNS records into Cloudflare with a few clicks:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168856-Importing-and-exporting-DNS-records

More information which DNS records are available, and how can you manage them, you can find on the article below:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019093151-Managing-DNS-records-in-Cloudflare

Adding DNS Records

This tutorial covers adding general DNS records and specifically A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records. Go to the DNS app of your Cloudflare dashboard. Enter your credentials and click ‘Log In’ Click the domain in question Click [image] [Please note, the content of the records below are solely for example purposes and should be replaced by valid records with content provided by your web host] Please select which record you need help adding:

A Record

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Editing DNS Records

This tutorial covers editing DNS records. Go to the DNS app of your Cloudflare dashboard. Enter your credentials and click ‘Log In’ Click the domain in question On this page, you will see a list of the DNS records for your domain. This page is where you edit them. You will see the list of records like this: [DNS Page] You can click the edit button to the right of any record to change it, then click ‘save’ when you’re done. There is also a tutorial on Adding DNS Records Tutorial Refer…

Regarding this:

@gopi

add cloud-flare to my website without changing the nameservers

From the article below - short answer “Yes”:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017421192-Cloudflare-DNS-FAQ#h_3ed87XBJc4ed4tmsNDt5eQ

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Using the CNAME Setup feature available at the Business or Enterprise plans:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020348832-Understanding-a-CNAME-Setup

Furthermore, you can add custom nameservers on a business plan or above:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169006-Can-I-get-vanity-or-custom-nameservers-using-Cloudflare-

Otherwise, unfortunately I am afraid no.

[gopi]

Hi Dear,

Thanks you very much for reply. I’m not much technical person wrt DNS. could you please suggest that i’m doing correct or not.

My DNS provider is some other and website is hosted in AWS cloud, want to add security,ddos proteciton to my website. This we are doing for mail domain not for subdomains.
I took just a pro plan, if required i’ll go for Business plan in cloud-flare. I have seen my dns records that we have mx, a, cname …etc

Now Cloud-flare asking to change the Name servers, does this impact anything my website or email or any except the security improvement ?

Please help Thanks in advance.