Cloudflare DNS Synchronization with Nexi Panel Print

In version v2.0.0, Nexi Panel has added the ability to synchronize DNS entries between Cloudflare and Nexi Panel DNS on your server

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service, that offers certain features such as

• CDN (Cloud Delivery Network) by caching the data from your website and serving them from their Point of Presence nearest to your visitor. This decreases the load on your server and saves bandwidth
• Network Gateway by automatically translating between IPv4 and IPv6
• SSL provider by issuing a certificate for your domain on their own server with one click with zero changes on your server
• WAF (Web Application Firewall) as Cloudflare sits between your visitors and your server it can block
• It offers direct installation of many apps without changing anything on site.

Why do you need synchronization?

In order to use Cloudflare the nameservers of the domain are changed to the ones provided by Cloudflare and that means any changes done such as adding subdomains changing mail providers or using a new DKIM key on Nexi Panel have to be manually inputted in CloudFlare’s DNS panel. You have to repeat the process for every change you make to every domain on your account on Nexi Panel.

That’s a lot of manual data entry and we at Nexi Panel made it easier for you to do by adding Cloudflare integration right into your Nexi Panel.

What does Nexi Panel Synchronization do

Nexi Panel has added deep integration with Cloudflare which can automatically do the following on your behalf

• Add, edit or remove DNS records: Whenever you create new DNS entry like for email or subdomain or text verification, you don’t have to log in to your Cloudflare account and do it again manually
• Create necessary zone info and domain in Cloudflare: When you create a new website on Nexi Panel, Nexi Panel checks if that domain is in your Cloudflare account.
  • If it is already present, Nexi Panel will create all the DNS records and copy them over to Cloudflare DNS records.
  • If it isn’t present. Nexi Panel will create the domain in Cloudflare with a basic free account and then create all the DNS records and copy them over to Cloudflare DNS records.
• Constant sync: If you change any of the records on Nexi Panel or any record is missing from the Cloudflare account, this feature will update and/or populate the changes on your Cloudflare account.

How to use Cloudflare integration

From version v1.9.5 onwards, you can use Cloudflare integration by going into DNS-> Cloudflare

You will be greeted by a screen like this

In order to obtain an API token from Cloudflare click the avatar on the right of you Cloudflare account and under the profile setting click the API token tab

Click on the blue “View” button next to Global API Key. Enter your password to get your API token key

Please enter the email address that you use on the Cloudflare account and your Cloudflare API token generated in the last step on the Cloudflare setting page in Nexi Panel and select Enable for Sync local Records to Cloudflare

Click save

On the next screen, you can add remove or sync your DNS between Nexi Panel and Cloudflare

Voila, in less than 10 minutes we were able to integrate Cloudflare with Nexi Panel and we have made DNS updates easy as a breeze directly from the Nexi Panel