[Cloudflare] Partnership Application Approved for XXX

Congratulations - you've been approved for Cloudflare's Certified Partner Program!

Follow these four steps to get up and running:


Step 1: Log into the Cloudflare Partner Portal

Set Your Password: https://partners.cloudflare.com/reset-password/XXXX

In the partner portal, you will be able to manage your and your customers' services with Cloudflare as well as use it as a central source of news and information about Cloudflare.


Step 2: Integrate your control panels, billing system, or online store

To make it easy for your customers to sign up, Cloudflare offers several options to make this easy. We have pre-created plugins for popular control panel systems like cPanel, Parallels Plesk Panel, Interworx, and ISPsystem. For other systems or for custom systems, Cloudflare offers a documented Host API with which you can integrate. 

Plugin downloads, your Host API access key, and many other resources can be found in the Cloudflare Partner Portal at: https://partners.cloudflare.com


Step 3: Preserve Original Visitor IP in Log Files

All requests to a Cloudflare protected website will come from the Cloudflare IP address ranges: http://www.cloudflare.com/ips

DO NOT THROTTLE OR RATE-LIMIT these IP addresses, or your customers' website visitors will see a "Website Offline" page.

Cloudflare passes the original visitor IP address in the header of every request. To retrieve the original visitor IP from the header, install the appropriate software on your server, you can find download links in the Cloudflare Partner Portal at https://partners.cloudflare.com. (Note: If you use the cPanel plugin and are running Apache, the visitor IP software will automatically be installed).


Step 4: Enable Cloudflare for Three Test Websites

To ensure that Cloudflare was properly installed, enable Cloudflare for three test websites from your control panel.

To check if a website is on Cloudflare, use Terminal. Open Terminal, and enter the following dig command.

    dig www.mydomain.com

Output without Cloudflare-enabled:

    www.mydomain.com   10782   IN   CNAME      www.mydomain.com

Output with Cloudflare-enabled:

    www.mydomain.com    10782  IN           CNAME   www.mydomain.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.

If you see '.cdn.cloudflare.net' at the end, then Cloudflare is enabled.


Understanding How Cloudflare Integrates:
- The plugins and API provision Cloudflare via delegating CNAMEs. Your customers continue to point their domain to your authoritative DNS servers. You do the delegation for them via the plugins or API. Note: this is different than websites that sign up at cloudflare.com directly.
- Since Cloudflare works through CNAMEs, Cloudflare cannot be enabled on the root domain, which is an A record. If your customer wants to use Cloudflare to accelerate and protect traffic going to the root domain, they must add a redirect in the .htaccess file to 'www'.
- As a reference, here is one example:

    RewriteEngine On
    # Rewrite added for CloudflareInstall - mysite.com
    # Wednesday 25th of August 2010 04:59:42 AM
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Support Options:
- Partner Technical Support: submit a question here: https://support.cloudflare.com/anonymous_requests/new
    (Note: select "Hosting Partners - Certified" in the dropdown menu)
- Other: email [email protected]


Once you have installed Cloudflare and enabled three test websites, within 24 hours you will receive an email outlining next steps and a Launch Plan. We look forward to getting you up and running as a Certified Partner.


Thanks!
The Cloudflare Team