Michael D. Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 The CloudFlare plugin is designed to use *OUR* nameservers for your domain and what happens if you use the plugin while already using CloudFlare, their nameservers will quit serving records for your domain. This will result in your site going offline until you update your nameservers to ns1.mddservices.com, ns2.mddservices.com, and ns3.mddservices.com. I believe that the cPanel CloudFlare plugin should warn about this or, at the least, check for an existing account and then provide a warning that a nameserver update would be required to prevent the site from going offline and that you should contact your hosting provider. We're working with CloudFlare over this, as a few of our customers have experienced this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
008Rohit Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 I have faced this issue myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankacter Posted July 26, 2011 Report Share Posted July 26, 2011 Michael, Can you elaborate on if/how this impacts VPS customers? We use CloudFlare for our domains. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Michael, Can you elaborate on if/how this impacts VPS customers? We use CloudFlare for our domains. Thanks! This can hit anyone on any type of hosting account if they have previously setup CloudFlare manually and they then activate CloudFlare for the same domain using the cPanel addon. Unless you have done this, there is no risk to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Hi Mike, About resellers and their clients using CloudFlare from within cPanel.. Do we tell the clients to use the nameservers provided for the reseller accounts? (e.g - ns1.supportedns.com, ect..) Can CloudFlare work using custom nameservers that are pointing to MDD IPs? (e.g - ns1.mydomain.com, ect..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 When working with the CloudFlare cPanel plugin, any nameserver will work so long as it ultimately resolves to our IPs. It does not have to be supportedns.com -- ns1.mydomain.com should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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