Our backend had a bit of a hiccup yesterday due to a database issue, but the CDN system itself was not affected as far as I've seen. The reason for failing DNS might be that one of the DNS servers was

Still, I use dedicated servers for my hosting, DNS failover, several live backup servers, use Office365 for e-mail etc etc. I use 50% of what they pay me per year for hosting and mail. The rest is for

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After activation of Cloudflare - Free and changing the required www settings and dns server.

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If you are using external DNS like Cloudflare then you aren't going to be affected by this issue. I can help my friend by setting up CF for him but this would be overkill. I prefer to get him keep usi

Wait, do you have your DNS at buyshared? Maybe that's what's different. I have external DNS and just pointed the A records at Buyshared.

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On centminmod.com OpenVZ based VPS servers, if you selected 'y' to <256MB installation prompts at install time, with full software install - Nginx v1.11.x, PHP 5.5 PHP-FPM, MariaDB 10.0.xx, Zen

Of course it's possible; it's what pretty much everyone here is doing. But it doesn't just happen by running a couple scripts you don't understand. You have to show some basic initiative in getting

It will only be used as a DNS server

Trying to figure out if it's just me (I was moving the VM that hosts the origin for one of the sites I use them for) or if it's them as I also can't get to their site and the DNS for the Zone doesn't

But if you can't live with an hour's downtime, you should have low DNS TTLs and a hot spare server ready to take over at a moment's notice, and preferably some sort of automation to flip over to it in

Also if you have dynamic ip at home you'll need to update your dns records remotely at cloudflare. There are a lots of tricks for that

But if you dont have so much time and you need only to have your certificate (LetsEncrypt) and to manage your dns from CloudFlare just remove the Orange.

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The glue record is the option below the DNS records. PorkBun is strange, but $7/10 is well worth dealing with it once or twice. I never even looked for lowend. DOH!

Thanks @fxf, @mfs for helping me out. I made all the clouds grey and everything is working perfectly. Is the same thing possible with incapsula ? However it seems cloudflare has superior dns service,

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Glue records? Yeah. They also indeed let you set your own NSes or use their own DNS if that's what you're looking for.