Cloudflare subdomain work Cloudron?

[jediD83]

Hello everyone. I know Cloudron free tier only allowed 2 apps, but it create a subdomain for each of them. At least, they did when I tried with DigitalOcean.

In Cloudflare free tier, I know subdomain isn't available, but I am not doing anything enterprise related, so is there a workaround, or am I force to use the Enterprise plan?

PS: If Cloudflare free tier account doesn't allow subdomain, how did DigitalOcean managed to create the my. domain for me to access the dashboard?

[joseph]

@jediD83 said in Cloudflare subdomain work Cloudron?:

In Cloudflare free tier, I know subdomain isn't available

Do you mean app.domain.com ? We use it all the time and it's on the free tier.

[imc67]

@jediD83 said in Cloudflare subdomain work Cloudron?:

PS: If Cloudflare free tier account doesn't allow subdomain,

I have hundreds of subdomains on my Cloudrons on free tier Cloudflare, it’s fully included!

[jediD83]

@joseph @imc67

...It is included, and there is no caveat? What did I misread with Cloudflare subdomain?

[joseph]

@jediD83 that one is if you want to make the subdomain a zone of it's own.

In DNS, there is a concept of zones. A zone is a (sub)domain that has it's own nameserver and holds all the subdomains underneath that (sub)domain.

What is free: if you host example.com in Cloudflare (i.e this is the zone), then you can add any number of subdomains. foo.bar.blah.example.com will work

What is not free: if you host example.com say in Route53 but you want custom.example.com in Cloudflare (i.e custom.example.com is the zone).

From a marketing perspective, cloudflare wants you on free because this will make people move their entire domain into cloudflare. But say if you run cisco.com, they probably are not going to move cisco.com wholesale into cloudflare . they may move just webex.cisco.com and it's subdomains alone into cloudflare. and now for this, cisco will happily pay

[jediD83]

@joseph

Thank for the explanation