Should I switch to Cloudflare?

[marcusquinn]

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

NameSilo

Not heard of them before, and kinda tired of transferring so many domains over the years but if you recommend I might find time.

Seem to be a little cheaper? Anything else?

[marcusquinn]

@Lonk We use a combo of wp-cfm and distributor plugins to achieve the same. The target it to have all site seed data checked into the repo as json. Not a fan of SQL script commits with the hazards from the order in which they're run.

Open to idea but I think you'll like what you see. I can think of multi-site potential too - but would want to automate CDN setups so that each has it's own IP.

[marcusquinn]

Weird, Namesilo doesn't support .co.uk, just .uk

[girish]

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

@BrutalBirdie What’s the initial pain of API access. I haven’t used them in years. But I use to use their API

namecheap requires you to manually whilelist every IP that uses their API. He is probably referring to that.

[BrutalBirdie]

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

@BrutalBirdie What’s the initial pain of API access. I haven’t used them in years. But I use to use their API after they updated their interface and made it horrible - and started using their API for all my changes. I was building Wordpress integration into Namecheap actually - when adding or changing to a new domain in Wordpress Multisite, it would check my Namecheap and configure the DNS, just like Cloudron or if I didn’t own the domain, it checked it’s availability and offered to purchase it on Name heap and configure the DNS. All without leaving the Wordpress Web App.

It was amazing. But I have yet to make the same thing for NameSilo but I’m planning too. Their API is even better.

@girish said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

@BrutalBirdie What’s the initial pain of API access. I haven’t used them in years. But I use to use their API

namecheap requires you to manually whilelist every IP that uses their API. He is probably referring to that.

Yes and No.

My 'initial pain' was that the api access is locked for new users, there was a text like 'you need to have 50€ balance' or something strange restriction.
But after chatting with the live chat I told them I want to host SaaS Services (aka. Cloudron ) and need api access to automatically change domains.

They had no problem with that and enabled it for me with no questions asked.

[girish]

@BrutalBirdie said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

My 'initial pain' was that the api access is locked for new users, there was a text like 'you need to have 50€ balance' or something strange restriction.

Ah, this is probably something new. We enabled is 3-4 years ago, when I guess they didn't have this restriction. Good to know they are friendly and enable it.

[Lonkle]

@girish said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

Ah, this is probably something new. We enabled is 3-4 years ago, when I guess they didn't have this restriction. Good to know they are friendly and enable it.

Same here, which was why I was confused. Btw, I may code another registrar integration for Cloudron down the road (2021), if you'll let me, I don't know how modular that part of the code is.

[girish]

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

Same here, which was why I was confused. Btw, I may code another registrar integration for Cloudron down the road (2021), if you'll let me, I don't know how modular that part of the code is.

That's quite easy. Just have to fill up the interface.js - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/tree/master/src/dns

[Lonkle]

@marcusquinn said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

@Lonk said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

NameSilo

Not heard of them before, and kinda tired of transferring so many domains over the years but if you recommend I might find time.

Seem to be a little cheaper? Anything else?

A little cheaper, the developers work with me directly when I need a new feature (they're slow, but I get to talk to their actual web developers). And their API is more fleshed out. Oh, but the reason I switched aside from them being cheaper was that Private Registry was Free and I really wanted that. At Namecheap it was like $5 per domain or something which adds up with 60 domains.

[Lonkle]

@girish said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

That's quite easy. Just have to fill up the interface.js - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/tree/master/src/dns

As always, thanks for the guidance. Bookmarked your post to come back to later! ️

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

That's quite easy. Just have to fill up the interface.js - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/tree/master/src/dns

So I guess if I want e.g. joker.com and 1984hosting.com to integrate I should just relay this info to them?

[girish]

@jdaviescoates said in Should I switch to Cloudflare?:

So I guess if I want e.g. joker.com and 1984hosting.com to integrate I should just relay this info to them?

Yes, if they have an api, it's probably a day's work to integrate a dns provider.

[humptydumpty]

I'm a bit late to the party but just want to say Cloudflare be damned. I use a VPN online and every site that has Cloudflare CDN blocks me out. Oh, and you can add Google Captcha to the naughty list.

[robi]

@humptydumpty you can use their VPN.

[humptydumpty]

@robi No thanks. I'm not going to feed the beast.