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How to add a site to Cloudflare

Written by WP Sofia

Written by WP Sofia

Updated 4 years ago

Overview

Steps for adding a website to Cloudflare.

Steps

  1. Click + Add a Site from your Cloudflare dashboard
  2. Enter the name of your site
  3. Click Add site
  4. Select a plan, e.g. Free for 99% of cases
  5. Click Confirm plan
  6. Wait for Cloudflare to scan your DNS records
  7. Click Continue
  8. If you have no DNS records, click Confirm when asked about adding records later
  9. Follow Cloudflare’s instructions to update your registrar nameservers
  10. Click Done, check nameservers
  11. Complete the Quick Start Guide
  12. Click Finish and wait up to 24h for the nameservers to update (usually this takes less than 15 minutes)