damoncloudflare

“If there is something you had to upload directly to a folder, not through WordPress you won’t be able to unless you have a paid account. “
Not sure where this is coming from. Having a Pro account doesn’t have anything to do with folders or uploading anything at all (nor does a free account). Are you talking about doing something via ftp?
You should either FTP to your server’s IP (ftp://yourserverip/)
address or to:

direct.yourdomain.com

“You will have to change your servers to theirs.”
You’re only changing your domain nameservers (DNS). You still keep your hosting provider, which means your site server IP address doesn’t change at all.

“I’ve had passing contact with CloudFlare Support, but did not find them to be eager beavers. In fact I invited them to this discussion earlier today.”

Sorry if it takes me a bit to get out to here from a request. We’re experiencing decent contact volumes right now, and I’m in the process of helping train new folks to tackle that load.

“I’m currently using MaxCDN. Can cloud flare be used in conjunction/simultaneously with another CDN? “

There is no conflict with using other CDN services. You would want to make sure that any CNAMEs you have for your CDN are present in your CloudFlare DNS settings (settings->DNS settings).

“Always a bit wary when someone else wants to take over your DNS! “
This isn’t a requirement if you activate via a hosting partner’s cpanel integration. We will also have CNAME pointing available in about 4-5 weeks or so (target is late July).

“Note that it only caches certain of your records, not all of them.”
CloudFlare only caches static content by extension type.

Some other helpful CloudFlare tips.

I can generally free some time up to respond to posts & I just want to advise it will take a little time right now for me to get back to one.

Hi,

No known issues with using both. Give it a shot & let us know what happens.

I am not aware of any issues with CloudFlare and S3/CloudFront. You would want to make sure the subdomain is added to CloudFlare in your DNS settings (settings->DNS settings->Add subdomain->make sure cloud is gray).

Please let us know if you see anything strange on the CloudFlare side. Since it sounds like a simple CNAME record, however, I can’t think of anything that would cause a conflict.

Thanks! Please do keep us in the loop to let us know what happens.

Hi Gadgetgod,

I believe Michelle just responded to you. The issue appears to be a server issue with your host.

Hi,

I definitely wouldn’t be much help for you, unfortunately. Best of luck getting it resolved!

Hi pspuria81,

Are you a CloudFlare user? I would be able to look at a CloudFlare issue, unfortunately. If so, I would need to know the domain.

Hi gadgetgod,

Have you checked with your host. Some quick troubleshooting yielded the following:

-going to direct went to a server not found error
-go directly to the IP generated a mysql error. Do you have a mysql subdomain that should be added?

I also noticed two entries for name servers in your DNS settings that point to domaincontrol.com. Do you own your own NS?

Do you have a copy of your DNS zone file prior to activating CloudFlare? It might make it really easy to figure out what the issue is.