Mapping a domain using CloudFlare's nameservers

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  fiveyearsabroad · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 11:19 am

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  Heya. I use CloudFlare to speed up my blog, so I can’t change the nameservers to map my existing domain to my WordPress blog.

  Instead, would you tell me what CNAME/A records I need to change to get the domain mapping to work?

  Thanks!

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi there,

  We can’t really support Cloudflare here, as we only support domain mapping via name servers. We do not have static IP addresses, which makes pointing Cloudflare to your blog (via an A record to an IP address) problematic.

  Just a brief background, we have a growing number of datacenters with thousands of servers between them. WordPress.com is already built on top of a cloud architecture, so when one server goes offline, everything is routed over to another transparently. When your domain is mapped to us by name servers, this all happens automatically.

  With Cloudflare, you’re directing the domain to one IP. If that server/IP goes offline, so does your site, there’s nothing we can do about that.

  If you want consistent performance with a mapped domain on WordPress.com, you’ll need to direct the name servers to us.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help!