All right my friends.
There's nothing to it but to do it let's set up the CloudFlare CDM.
OK.
Now before we do this we're gonna do a couple of preparation steps and the first one is that if you
do have a cash installer like we do WP super cash and it has CDM support.
We're gonna go ahead and deactivate that so it's gonna be in C D in here and then we're gonna turn this
one off so that we don't have to see the end support as kind of collides together and we already know
that this one isn't working very well because even a loading speed and we're not getting any support
from the other C D on the Urals so we're gonna deactivate this and install a more powerful one.
I'm going to click on save changes.
There we go and now we're also going to go over to blue host dot com.
We're gonna click on a load game can just follow my step sir and we're gonna go over to market place
and then Adams and scroll down until we have SSL certificates.
And now we are going to disable our SSL.
Now it doesn't feel very good since looking at the previous election or does it.
But don't worry we're going to install a new one and things are gonna be even more secure in just a
couple of minutes.
So we're going to go ahead and disable this one.
There we go.
So now we're ready to get started with CloudFlare right.
We've removed our SSL.
We've also removed any form of other CDM and supported might collide with this one.
So we're gonna move over to CloudFlare dot com I'm gonna put this in the resources of course and all
you're gonna need to do is go ahead and click on sign up here.
But for me who already have an account I'm going to click on log in and once you've signed up we're
gonna end up in the same place anyway and we're just gonna go ahead and add our sites and I'm gonna
write the site in which will be Robin and just Bert.
Dot com.
Like that I'm gonna click on Add site and then now we're gonna change your DNS records in other words
we are gonna change so that the DNS in other words the information is going to be sent through their
servers and not blue host.
And because they're censored with their servers we get to connect with their C. Dan which is gonna be
all across the world.
Okay.
So I'm gonna click on Next here I'm going to choose the free plan as you can see we have the global
sea then which is amazing and also the free SSL certificates.
I'm going to click here and click on confirm plan and we get to do this for one free Web site which
is more than good enough for us.
And then we're gonna confirm.
So we're gonna get to this page here and there is nothing that we need to think about because this is
all happening automatically hit he as automatic here which is perfect.
And what is happening is that they are changing their IP or rather our IP to point towards their servers.
So now all of our information that we'll be sending rather than going through Blue Holes are gonna go
through CloudFlare and that is what's being set up right here.
So we're just going to leave this B as it is and click on Next.
Now this is where we have to get our hands a little bit dirty but this is actually super simple.
We need to change our name servers.
So what we're gonna do is change or blue host name servers into the CloudFlare name servers.
So the first one here we're just gonna click on copying.
So it gets copied and then we're gonna go to Blue host.
I'm gonna create a new tab here and log into blue host and then click on log in and then I'm gonna move
over to do mains down here and you can see it's as Robin and Jasper and this hurts a little bit and
the heart doesn't it.
No SSL we're gonna fix that in a minute.
And now I'm gonna click on manage and then we're gonna go to name servers.
And here are the names servers you can see this to end this one dot blue dot com and this and this one
the blue house dot com that they are asking us to change.
So they want to have the end this one into this one that we already copied.
Right.
So we're just going to go here and we are going to click on use custom name servers and we're gonna
change this one into this.
There we go.
And we're gonna do the same with this one we're gonna cop it go back change the second one and pasted
in just like that.
And when we are done we're gonna hit save which is awfully far out to the right my face is in the way
but it's down here in the in the right I'm just gonna hit save like that.
So now it's been saved successfully.
Really really nice.
We are gonna go ahead and go back and click on continue.
And now we're actually all done.
All we need to do.
Well it's not just all we need to do but we actually need to wait afterwards.
Twenty four hours before this change takes place.
Now in my experience this can take as little as half an hour to an hour but it can also take much longer
so we're just gonna have to wait see the changes now before we move on and do that.
We're going to change and get our SSL right.
So we're gonna move to crypto That's right here.
All of this is already set up.
We're going to move to crypto now.
The first thing we have to change within the crypto option is our SSL and thankfully we're gonna get
our SSL back.
Or rather we have already.
So it is from the beginning set to full and there are four different ones going on the first one is
off which probably doesn't need an explanation you turn it off.
Then we have flexible and flexible.
This one is quite problematic because this means that there will be no security between your server
and the CloudFlare but there will be security between CloudFlare and your visitors right.
So there is still going to be a security gap in between here meaning you can get away with much less
restrictions SSL wise and security wise but the visitors are still going to see your website as secure.
So it's kind of a fake SSL if you will.
And I don't recommend it for obvious reasons.
It's not that secure at least not from your end it's much more secure than than it is off but it's not
secure enough.
Then the next one we have is full and that is actually full on it's secure from your end to cloud flare
and from cloud for it to the user.
And this is the way you want it to you want all the way to be secure.
Now we also have full strict and what strict means is that you need some sort of certificate.
So for example because blue host is using a service called Let's Encrypt.
We already have a certificate on our servers our servers are considered secure and because we're using
Blue Hose we have the Let's Encrypt and then we have the certificate and we can use the full strictness.
So I strongly recommend that we go ahead and use this full strict because it is the safest.
But if you are not using Blue Horse chances are you might only be able to use one of the other maybe
even just flexible then flexible is still going to be better but I still recommend that you check with
your host your servers and make sure that you can go ahead and get an SSL certificate because it is
so valuable.
We learned that from the previous lecturer.
Right.
So we're going to keep it at full strict because we can and we're thankful that we can.
Then we're going to scroll down and we want to check some things out.
And the first thing is always use EDP s and that's a part of it being strict.
Right.
So if someone is coming in with HDP you always want to redirect them to EDP as we always want to use
this secure encryption.
Remember the s actually stands for secure.
And here we have automatic E P S rewrites.
Basically it changes all of the content resources and links et cetera on the site from each to the P
to each and the P S and we want that to be on the screen who want everything to be encrypted and secure
and that is it for that.
So next up.
Now when everything is set up we have our SSL and we have also set up CloudFlare for the CDM.
Chances are this is going to take a while it might take up towards well a couple of hours but I'm gonna
cut to that so you don't have to see all the boring parts.
Then I'm going to show you how you can see that it is actually working and functioning.
All right.
So it's been about two hours and it's been up and running for that same.
Now what we're going to go ahead and do is go to this website called What's My DNS dot net.
It's in the resources and we're going to write in our website we're gonna write didn't Robin and just
br dot com and then we're gonna change this and we're going to go to end this which is the name server
and then we're gonna click on search because this is going to allow us to see how far we have come and
we can see that we actually have some servers that has turned to the cloud for their servers like the
one in Ashburn.
We also have the one in Cambridge in Brasil in and there we go Paris et cetera but we also have a couple
of that doesn't not yet like in London for example we can see that because these are the ones that we
put in manually and these are the ones from Blue Holes which figures because they see blue holes right
now in order to check or SSL and everything as well and to get more information we can use this check
for CloudFlare that Celestia dot com.
This is also in the resources we're going to go ahead and write in our website which is a [REMOVED] p s
call on forward slash forward slash always easy to P Yes from now on guys.
Robyn and Jess bird dot com and then click on scan and here we can see that it has checked eight global
locations and we have found CloudFlare in four year Bafana England Denmark Russia you as not found in
China Germany Spain and Netherlands.
So it's still going to need a little bit more time but the great news is that it is actually working.
It also says that we're using the CloudFlare the which is fantastic news.
It means it's working clearly.
And it also says that we are using the CloudFlare SSL which means that is also working which is amazing
news so everything is working guys we can be really happy about this.
We're going to give it a couple of more hours and then we're gonna move on to the next lecture.
Check one more thing out and then we're gonna do a new test that uptime and check out the server response
time.
Okay.
Great job making it this far.
See in the next lecture.