Setting up a custom domain - transferring from Cloudflare

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Hi JohnnyK,

I hope this helps:

@JohnnyK

Question 1: Should I copy ALL of the records into Netlify? Including those that are marked “Proxied”?

Not if you don’t wish to use Netlify DNS, but if you do, you most likely will have to copy all of those.

@JohnnyK

Question 2: Since we have a Netlify Business plan, and aren’t on the HPE - do we have any DDoS protection?

We do monitor and protect our entire CDN as a whole from DDoS, but individual sites might not benefit much from that protection. However, we’re working on improving that.

@JohnnyK

Question 3: If no to question 2, can we host our site on Netlify and have Cloudflare proxy the records to gain DDoS protection?

Yes you can, but we don’t recommend it as it might break some of our features. But, if those features are not too important to you, then you’re good to go. Details here:

[Support Guide] Why not proxy to Netlify?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support Staff in August 2023 Netlify runs a CDN backed by several separate network service providers, and our CDN automatically routes your web visitors’ traffic to a network-nearby server to give them the fastest possible response time…as long as you let their browsers talk directly to our CDN! We know you want your your web traffic to be fast; your deploys and rollbacks to be atomic; and your Analytics data to be useful. If you proxy to Netlify, you’ll have problems…

@JohnnyK

Question 4: Where do I “Update ‘our’ domain’s name servers”?

Do not do this if you don’t want to use Netlify DNS. But if you want to, you’d have to update the nameservers in the settings from where you purchased the domain, so Bluehost in this case. If you wish to continue using Cloudflare, simply add Netlify specific records in Cloudflare and turn off the orange cloud icon.