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# How to Create a Cloudflare account and Add A Site/Domain

|| Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy and it will protect and accelerates any website which is online. When your website is using Cloudflare, its web traffic is routed through Cloudflare’s global network. Cloudflare’s network automatically optimizes the delivery of your web pages which results in visitors get the fastest page load time. The performance of the webpage will be very high as compared to ordinary one.

 

What is Cloudflare do?

1. Reduce the load time and provide the best performance

2. Block threats and limit abusive bots

3. Prevent crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources

4. Decreases the spam and other attacks.

 

**Create a Cloudflare Account and Add a Website**

Signing up for Cloudflare is very easy and need little time to complete the process. Now we are going to describe how you can create an account and add website without any error.

1. Go to www.Cloudflare.com and click the ‘Sign Up’ button at the top of the page.

2. Create a Cloudflare account with your email address and password. Click ‘Create account’ to proceed. 
 
3. Once logged in with your new created Cloudflare account, click on the **website** tab on the left as shown:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_u09r4z.png)


4. Click on **Add a site** button:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_b7lwe9.png)


5. Add your domain name and click on **Add Site** button:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_1ph3373.png)

6. You will arrive at the following page. Select the **Free** plan and click on **Continue**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_1bn4mdi.png)

7. Your DNS will be automatically imported. Review them, and click on **Continue**

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_rrcovf.png)


8. A new window will open and here and you'll be presented with nameservers associated with your Cloudflare account as per below:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/30c43b4318b81000/image_maq7bf.png)

 
9. Lastly, update your nameservers at your registrar's end. If your domain is purchased from us, refer to this guide on how to update your domain's nameservers: 
[How to update your nameservers via Serverfreak's client area](https://help.serverfreak.com/en/article/how-to-change-or-update-your-nameservers-in-client-area-3pvikl/)