Using Cloudflare with 4GoodHosting

Cloudflare can sit in front of your site for CDN and protection. You must choose who hosts DNS.

Pattern A — Cloudflare proxies; 4GH still hosts the site (common)

1. Add the site in Cloudflare.
2. At your registrar, set Cloudflare’s nameservers (not ns1.4goodhosting.com).
3. In Cloudflare DNS, create A/AAAA (and CNAME) records pointing to your 4GoodHosting server IP from the welcome email or cPanel.
4. Orange-cloud the web records; keep mail-related records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) correct — often grey-cloud for some host records.
5. SSL mode: start with Full (strict) once AutoSSL or an origin cert is valid on the server.

AutoSSL note: When Cloudflare owns DNS, cPanel AutoSSL may need a DNS challenge or a Cloudflare DNS API token. If HTTPS fails to issue, open a ticket.

Pattern B — Stay on 4GH nameservers

Use ns1–ns4.4goodhosting.com and skip Cloudflare, or use Cloudflare only as a registrar with DNS still pointed at us (less common).

Email warning

Wrong Cloudflare proxy on mail hostnames breaks email. Keep MX on our mail hostnames from cPanel, and repair SPF/DKIM via Email Deliverability after DNS changes (#2850).