Problem with the domain redirection

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  oscarpalacios · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 12:40 pm

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  I have a serious problem about the redirection of my site. Too many times (seriously, many) when an user tries to access to oscarpalacios.com, cloudflare sends a message about that the site is down… and the site is not down. In fact, if the user writes: oscarpalacios.wordpress.com (the original domain), the page shows without problem.
  So… the problem is with the redirection that I have with WordPress.
  Any solution?

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 3, 2014 at 6:08 pm

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  Hi Oscar!

  We are unable to support using CloudFlare for your WordPress.com site for several reasons:

  1. Their method of pointing your domain to your WordPress.com site requires using an IP address or specific server, which we don’t support. Your site does not have a static IP address or specific server. Instead, requests to load your site are shifted between several IP addresses and servers in order to balance the demand on servers. This means that specifying an IP address or server won’t work.

  2. The features of their cloud-based infrastructure simply duplicate the infrastructure already being provided to you by WordPress.com, such as:

  • CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) that deliver your site content from the location closest to your visitor
  • Caching/optimizing files for faster loading times
  • Security measures protecting your site from denial of service attacks and other forms of hacking/malware
  • Site stats, including search engine terms and incoming link referrers, that are easier to read than Google Analytics

  For the best results, you’ll need to change the name servers on your domain back to WordPress.com:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  If there are other features you were interested in using via CloudFlare, besides the ones listed above, can you let me know more about what you’re trying to do? I’ll be happy to help you learn more about the equivalent feature on WordPress.com.

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  oscarpalacios · Member · Sep 4, 2014 at 7:57 am

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  Hi jeremey, thanks a lot!!! I’ll try the solution at once and give you the results

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 4, 2014 at 4:20 pm

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  Sounds great!

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  oscarpalacios · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 12:20 pm

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  Well, it seems that your solution works perfectly :-) Thanks a lot!!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Sep 9, 2014 at 4:06 pm

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  Great Oscar! Glad to hear it.