Begin routing traffic through Cloudflare’s global network

Don’t have a Cloudflare account set up yet? To get up and running, follow these steps.

Create a Cloudflare account and add a website

Cloudflare account sign-up takes less than five minutes. To get started, sign up for an account and add your first website.

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Confirm your nameserver change

Next, update the nameservers at your domain registrar to activate Cloudflare.

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Recommended Actions:

Whitelist Cloudflare IP addresses

After confirming your nameserver change, we recommend whitelisting Cloudflare IP addresses.

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Whitelist third-party services

Finally, we recommend utilizing IP Access Rules to restrict, challenge, or whitelist traffic to your site.

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Continue to performance setup

Resolve the most common issues and questions when adding a new domain to Cloudflare.

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