Make my e-mail to stio.studio
I have created a website https://stio.studio and want to create a e-mail. I tried to do the tutorial to cloudflare but I think I messed something up.
Info:
I bought the stio.studio domain thru porkbun
I use github for my website
I am totally new to all of e.mail, url, dns and stuff
(I don't know what tags to use 😅)
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are the dns records on cloudflare?
umm
How do I check?
how are you editing your dns settings?
...
I don't know what you are talking about 😅
Have you added your domain to Cloudflare?
Yes
stio doesn't know how to do most of this stuff he is very new to website creating
Okay. Does it still say "Pending Nameservers" or anything like that in the overview?
Okay, so you still need to switch over the nameservers. If you click on that, it should tell you how to do that
click on what?
the "pending nameserver update" i think
the stio.studio
Yea, just click on that card
follow what it says to do
Yup. Now you need to go to porkbun (this is your domain registrar), then find the manage domain options
Lke this?
Then in porkbun, click on "Details" for your domain, and in the middle click "Edit" for your Authoritive Nameservers. Replace all of the porkbun ones with the two Cloudflare ones, and just wait a bit to receive an email about your website being activated in Cloudflare. Then you can use email forwarding or some other email solution
I think you need to configure it on porkbun not cloudflare
Porkbun will work still right?
For.. what? Once you change your DNS to Cloudflare, all DNS changes need to be made in Cloudflare's DNS Record Panels, any you make in Porkbun wouldn't apply
Porkbun would still remain your registrar
oh ok
you'll have to migrate your dns records from porkbun to cloudflare
however i think it does it for you now
yep change those
It tries to scan common ones, but there's no guarantee it will get all. Definitely recommended to check it got everything on import.
In this case, his website is brand new, so unlikely he has any he wants to keep
yep
Submit then?
yep
Does the e-mail work then?
you'll have to set that up
do you want to send and recieve or just recieve?
Both ig
email routing only allows recieving
Oh ok
if you want sending you'll have to look at another provider
oh
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thanks
yeah might have been a bit unclear
i do this which allows me to protect my website and use custom email hosting
Porkbun has their own email solution as well, since you're using them as your registrar, no clue if it's any good though.
I really like Fastmail, would recommend them, but they are a bit pricey. Zoho has a free plan for an single custom domain, and people have said good things about them
oh ok
I think I will use zoho then
yeah i use zoho, its good for me, i dont really use email intensively so it works out well for me
especially since its free
Should I just set the NS to default again then?
no you can keep it on cloudflare
but why would I?
website protection
and other services
why did you switch in the first place
I think porkbun does that
switch what?
switch from porkbun to cloudflare
Because you guys said I should do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They don't do DDOS protection, at least not by default
a what protection?
ddos
I don't know what that is 😅
Cloudflare gets you a lot of useful features for free. Of course the people here will be a bit biased, but fwiw I have all my domains on Cloudflare, even if I've registred them elsewhere.
oh ok
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
Porkbun uses Cloudflare for its nameservers anyway, you're basically picking from a lighter feature set of Cloudflare, or full Cloudflare with all features/etc
yeah the free features are really good
oh lol
I will just keep it at this then?
yea, and any changes you make to DNS Records need to be done within Cloudflare
Oh ok
ok good luck with your website
Thanks
I will see what zoho has to offer :)
So umm as this is already open
Can I get some more help?
So I am trying to add the zoho
But I am getting this error
Did you try.. disabling email routing?
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/email/routing/settings
Oh I think I did it
No 😅
I did it now
It works now
How do I connect to GitHub?
more info needed, also probably worth creating another #general-help topic about, or if this is talking about Pages, #pages-help
Oh yeah I fixed it
Thanks anyways