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Note from 24 November 2021

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 24 November 2021
  • Cloudflare, Gandi, Netlify
  • 11 reactions

As I'm really disappointed by #Netlify WebPerf from France, I'm planing to move to #Cloudflare.

But it looks like they won't allow me to keep my DNS on #Gandi, this is really unfortunate… 😕

Custom domains on Cloudflare require Cloudflare DNS

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  1. Arnaud Ligny 👨‍💻 💡 🚀 avatar

10 replies

  1. gandi.net avatar gandi.net
    Hi Nicolas, you should be able to keep your DNS with us when using Cloudflare services. I advise you to reach their support team to know how to. Let us know if you need further help. Thanks -- Anaïs
    • 24 November 2021, 12:52
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  2. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    Thanks Anaïs, I’ll try to contact them! 👍
    • 24 November 2021, 13:01
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  3. Pierre Martin avatar Pierre Martin
    I'm also interested by the solution. That is my main blocker with Cloudflare.
    • 24 November 2021, 13:28
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  4. Arnaud Ligny 👨‍💻 💡 🚀 avatar Arnaud Ligny 👨‍💻 💡 🚀
    +1 ! 😊
    • 24 November 2021, 13:36
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  5. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    It looks like only Business or Enterprise level paid plans can have this:
    support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/artic…

    Be careful with the confusion: "Be careful not to confuse CNAME setup terminology with CNAME records which are available in the DNS app for all plan types"
    • 24 November 2021, 14:24
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  6. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    It's in the plans overview:
    • 24 November 2021, 14:32
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  7. tigersway.net avatar tigersway.net
    if you're gonna use their pages you don't need to move your DNS but to open your account you need a domain, another one, you can move.
    At least that what I did.
    • 26 November 2021, 05:34
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  8. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    That's it. I first used Cloudflare Pages on one of their subdomains, but then had to move my DNS to theirs to be able to use my own domain nicolas-hoizey.photo
    • 26 November 2021, 11:18
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  9. tigersway.net avatar tigersway.net
    developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-star… Add a custom CNAME record

    Try again. I'm pretty I did it!
    • 26 November 2021, 11:50
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  10. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    I have to use a A record because I don't want a subdomain
    • 26 November 2021, 11:56
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