{"id":11479682,"date":"2019-04-29T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=11479682"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:35:30","slug":"initial-setup-cname-and-previous-a-record","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/initial-setup-cname-and-previous-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Setup CNAME and previous A record?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, i don&#8217;t understand initial setup well.<br \/>\nuse cloudflare. So i have an A record pointing to server IP.<br \/>\nOn when i created a quic.cloud it guessed my IP wrong (it showed cloudflare&#8217;s).<br \/>\nSo i assumed i had to delete that and use the real server IP.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, moving on. It says to create a CNAME record. But it&#8217;s not possible, cloudflare won&#8217;t allow it. Maybe because of the A record pointing to real server IP.<\/p>\n<p>So, i&#8217;m guessing i must delete the A record and create a new CNAME using the domain and the url you assigned me? Right?<\/p>\n<p>I assume i must also bypass cloudflare right? Turn off orange cloud for it?<\/p>\n<p>Would there be a downtime?<br \/>\nAre all my assumptions correct?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the price of caching the site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11479682","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11479682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11479682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479885,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11479682\/revisions\/11479885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}