Recently when setting my WordPress site, one of the requirements I wanted to meet was having a proxy server protect it. Basically, a proxy server is where another person’s server hides the original IP of the base server. For example, this image:
In my case, I wanted my public IP to be not seen by using domain IP lookup tools. And possibly misuse it for malicious intents. (Such as DDoSing)
After a little googling around, I discovered that Cloudflare had the free proxy option when you use their service. So I switched over nameservers to Cloudflare instead of GoDaddy nameservers, and it copied over the current DNS records. I just had to change the A record with the “orange cloud” enabled. The “orange cloud” is the switch on whether or not a DNS record has the proxy enabled or not
This tool can be handy for many hosting cases such as Minecraft Servers and Web hosting.
I definitely recommend using Cloudflare for Proxy and DNS management, as they have many useful tools, including redirects for domains.
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