Keep Cloudflare DNS when moving a self-hosted WordPress site
An older, heavy site built by an agency is being moved to a new platform. The practical choice is whether to remove DNS and point the domain through the , or keep the existing setup and only change it to point at the new platform. The initial concern was that might be an unnecessary extra layer for .
The final decision is to keep DNS management in . The confusion was mainly about whether was an unnecessary cost, not whether it was always an unnecessary step.
Key points
- The migration involves a site that already uses DNS.
- The domain could be pointed through the instead.
- Keeping DNS and updating the records is the simpler path if it is already working.
- The key distinction is unnecessary cost versus an extra management step.