Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Will CloudFlare accelerate and protect a root domain (i.e. example.com)?

CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMEs. Since root domains
are an A record, we recommend that awebsite forwards its traffic to
'www' through their .htaccess file. If the user does not forward the
traffic, then any traffic to www.example.com will be accelerated and
protected by CloudFlare (and shown in the statistics) and any traffic
to example.com will not be served by CloudFlare. If traffic goes to a
root domain and you want to accelerate and protect the traffic using
CloudFlare, you can add a redirect to 'www' in your .htaccess file

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