On this Webflow lesson we take a look at easy DNS configurations. How to setup your Webflow site with Cloudflare and how to solve your email hosting if you are on a Webflow hosting plan.
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all right guys on this lesson we're
going to establish
our dns and redirect our domain
hopefully we have already purchased that
you should get that from a dns provider
in this case the most popular ones are
godaddy
there's namecheap.com as well you can
check out ionos.com
also they provide domains and hosting
and finally google domains
be aware that webflow does not host
emails
so you will need to find a different
provider
you have options like you can go over to
hey.com
set up an email you could try it for
free
or you could actually set up a business
account with google suits
they have some interesting pricing
personally i think google suit is
really really reliable it's the best out
there but it is pricey
so just for you to note you want to have
a business email
you want to have you're going to have to
check out one of these third parties
alternatively what you can do is
go over to a host hosting provider
maybe purchase a vpn or a dedicated
server so that you can so you can have
your emails hosted there
and then we can simply redirect
the records over to webflow
so the website loads up correctly and
the emails get
sent to your server
so i'm going to go into my products
and access that domain we're going to
use specifically for
our webflow site you will see a
series of records these records although
they seem pretty confusing
what they do is just take care of the
connection between
your hosting provider and your domain
registrar
anytime we need to set up an email or
set up a site
the dns management is crucial so we want
to make sure you have
access to your dns either from godaddy
or whatever registrar you decide to use
the next thing i want to introduce to
you guys is that you need to make sure
you have
a cloudflare account and what is
cloudflare
cloudflare is a super powerful
cdn so a cdn is a content delivery
network
it's a group of servers distributed
across
multiple countries in order for them to
work together
to make your site load fast
and reliable if the site goes down your
site will
still show up and be available across
different regions
so i've already created my account and
the first thing i want to do
is create a site so i'm going to create
the site here and i'm going to call it
streamvr dot app
which is the name of the domain that
we're going to use
and we're going to select the free plan
for now
right away what cloudflare does it
starts to find the dns records on its
own
and you'll notice right now that it's
found a couple of them
all right so ideally what you want to do
is make sure you don't have
any cname records at all so i'm going to
delete this one
and i'm going to continue
what cloudflare is doing it's going to
give us
a couple of name servers these name
servers
are just going to be a redirection
over to our cloudflare so all we have to
do
is copy over the cloudflare's name
server one
and two and bring them over to our
godaddy
so if we refresh our godaddy account
and go into dns we want to make sure
we change the name servers over to what
cloudflare has given us
okay so there's one and then there's the
second one
just like that and we click save
right now it's just asking it's just
making sure that you are aware and you
consent that the name
server's domain is going to be changing
this typically
takes about 24 or up to 72 hours when
you do a change like this
so some of these features of dns will
not work until
that has been processed
all right you're gonna see some security
and conf some
security and speed configurations for
your site
so we might go ahead and just skip
through because we don't need to
activate
any of them all right once we have
confirmation of the domain registration
we are ready to start
connecting webflow with cloudflare
so let's take a look in the next lesson
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