How to set up a host name in DigitalOcean while using CloudFlare?

June 15, 2016 15.8k

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chinmayrajyaguru

Hey friends,
I need some help to set up a host name. I have already registered domain and my website is running as well on Dedicated hosting server. Additionally, I'm using CloudFlare.

Few days back, I was reading about solution for high traffic website and find out DigitalOcean in answer. 3 days back, I have created a droplet and installed WordPress with LEMP (Nginx) on Ubuntu 16.04.

Today I've completely clone (migrated) my website in DigitalOcean droplet IP. It's working fine and no error. Now...

Please guide / help me to set up a host name in DigitalOcean droplet while using CloudFlare.

Note: my websites are live and thousands of people's visiting per day so kindly suggest me right direction.

Thank you!

2 Answers

aha MOD June 15, 2016

Hello @chinmayrajyaguru -

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for setting up CloudFlare as a reverse proxy to your DigitalOcean droplet, which is exactly what you need:

GUIDE:	How to use CloudFlare with your DigitalOcean Droplet
	Section 1: Configure your domain to use CloudFlare. Starting on CloudFlare, you need to scan your domain's current DNS setup. Then CloudFlare will give you updated nameservers to use in your domain registrar's settings. Read Guide

How To Mitigate DDoS Attacks Against Your Website with CloudFlare

by Mitchell Anicas

CloudFlare is a company that provides content delivery network (CDN) and distributed DNS services by acting as a reverse proxy for websites. CloudFlare's free and paid services can be used to improve the security, speed, and availability of a website in a variety of ways. In...

chinmayrajyaguru June 16, 2016

Brother @aha
Your given link heading & link is different. Whenever I try to visit that page, I don't found any word related CloudFlare ...But thanks bro.

Note:
It's redirecting me here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/building-for-production-web-applications-deploying#set-up-database-server
And it's about "Building for Production: Web Applications — Deploying".

Thank you!
Have a great day mate..

Building for Production: Web Applications — Deploying
by Mitchell Anicas
In this part of the "Building for Production: Web Applications" series (2 of 6), we will deploy our example PHP application, WordPress, and a private DNS. Your users will access your application over HTTPS via a domain name, e.g. "https://www.example.com", that points to the load balancer. The load balancer will act as a reverse proxy to the application servers, which will connect to the database server.
- aha MOD June 16, 2016
  
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  How To Mitigate DDoS Attacks Against Your Website with CloudFlare
  by Mitchell Anicas
  CloudFlare is a company that provides content delivery network (CDN) and distributed DNS services by acting as a reverse proxy for websites. CloudFlare's free and paid services can be used to improve the security, speed, and availability of a website in a variety of ways. In...
  
  chinmayrajyaguru June 17, 2016
  
  Wow! That's really great. That is what exactly I wanted.
  
  Thank you @aha ..

IcyApril June 15, 2016

At this point you should be able to just move your nameservers to CloudFlare and have your DNS configured in your CloudFlare dashboard.

As soon as you hit the orange cloud in your CloudFlare dashboard your domain will be routed through CloudFlare's network.

Here are some tips for WordPress:

Enable HTTP/2 as it will make a dramatic performance improvement. In order to do this you will need to use CloudFlare's Free SSL service. Google also ranks websites with SSL better than ones which don't
Prevent dynamic attacks using the CloudFlare Web Application Firewall by enabling the WordPress Rule Set.
Use the Cache Everything Page Rule in CloudFlare to cache HTML alongside dynamic content.
Ensure CloudFlare IPs are whitelisted.

Additionally anyone using Apache should really install the Mod_CloudFlare plugin for Apache as it will drastically improve integration with CloudFlare.

chinmayrajyaguru June 16, 2016

Hello @IcyApril
Thank you so much for all details and help. Yes it's works and now my websites are running fine.

Thank you again!

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