How Can I Activate Cloudflare On My Hosting Account?

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Cloudflare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) which can speed up your website by copying some of its contents to different locations around the world, allowing your visitors to access the data from the location nearest them. Learn more about CloudFlare's CDN.

Important: By following the steps outlined in this article, you'll be changing your domain's nameservers (also called DNS) from WHC to Cloudflare. After this change has been made, any changes to your domain's DNS records will need to be performed through your Cloudflare account, and not exclusively through your cPanel. Examples of DNS-impacting changes include: creating subdomains, updating your MX records, or creating SPF records.

By switching to Cloudflare, any commercial SSL certificate installed on your domains will no longer be used and will be replaced with Cloudflare's basic SSL. As such, we do not recommend that clients with commercial SSL or EV SSL certificates enable Cloudflare on their accounts without clearly understanding the repercussions.

Log in to your WHC Client Area
Log in to cPanel
Within the Software section click on Cloudflare
Click on Create Your Free Account
When signing up to Cloudflare, you will need to provide
1. A working email address
2. A new password (not the password to your email account)
Click Create account
Add the domain you wish to connect to the CDN network and click Add now
A screen will appear informing you that the process has started. Click Next
Select the Free plan and click Confirm Plan (or choose one of their paid plans should you require their premium features)
Click Confirm
You will be brought to a page showing your DNS query results

Scroll down the list of DNS records and you should see 2 rows with an orange cloud icon

The two rows should be your A Record

And Your CNAME record

Once you confirm this, scroll to the bottom and click Continue
A popup screen will appear, showing the Cloudflare nameserver records, similar to:
You will need to copy and paste these Cloudflare nameservers into the nameservers settings within your WHC Client Area to complete the process. The changes may require several hours to take effect.