You might probably heard of the word DNS. It’s an acronym for Domain Name Resolution.
Basically, what it does is resolving your domain name to an IP address. It’s hard to remember IP addresses because it’s prone to mistake. Instead, remembering a name works well. For example, ipv4 address 202.1.1.1 is associate with domain foodstuff.com. The job of DNS is that, when you enter foodstuff.com in the address bar of your browser, it takes the domain name and resolve it to the ipv4 address associate with it.
It’s cool right? Thumbs up to our friend DNS.
DNS service is running on a DNS server and is responsible for the purpose. How to set it up is beyond the scope of this post.
Now I want to introduce you to a third party DNS service known as CloudFlare.
I have all my DNS handled on CloudFlare. The free plan offered is suffice, infact more than enough to do the job.
CloudFlare has lots of awesome features even in the free plan that you can take advantage of. For example, DNS, Security, CDN, Lazy Loading, Firewall, etc.
Do check it out, I highly recommend.
In my next post I will show you how you can implement your DNS configurations on CloudFlare.
Stay tuned.