What plugins you recommend please if cloudflare is used?

alex

Do you recommend wordfence and autooptimize to be activated if cloudflare is used ?

tekniboss

I don't use any plugin, I tend to keep my stack as simple as possible. I believe hardening your server's security + Fail2ban is more than enough to secure everything. As for Autooptimize, I removed it since I was getting better speed scores without it. WordOps + CF are more than capable of turbocharging your website.

alex

tekniboss

Thanks for sharing your practice.

Do you use cloudflare free plan please?

By the way, what is the cache method o your site please?

tekniboss

alex Yes, I use the free plan. As for caching, I use fastcgi_cache.

alex

tekniboss great thanks .

Here is a question:

I issued ssl cert when the domain is hosted on digital ocean.
So, the ssl cert was issued when the site was created as below

Wp site create my-domain.com —le --dns=dns_dgon

For now, I want to migrate domain onto cloudflare, and issue or update new cert with cloudflare, how should I do please?

Should I remove the previous ssl cert, and reissue a ne one ?

Thanks

tekniboss

alex

wo site update site.tld --le --letsencrypt=wildcard --dns=dns_cf.

But first you need to set your credentials with acme.sh variables, look here.

alex

tekniboss

Sorry, it does not work, and will be timeout.

Yeah, I know we need set values for
export CF_Token=""
export CF_Account_ID=""

So, do I have to remove the previous ssl cert?
If yes, how?