This Tutorial Shows how to add a New Custom Domain to Groove Using Your Own CloudFlare Account.
Although you can add your own custom domain inside of Groove directly without a separate CloudFlare account, there are reasons why I recommend hosting your DNS records (custom domain records) in your own free CloudFlare account.
Here are a couple:
- When hosted in Groove, there's no way to choose to send all traffic to either www or non-www. Both will work, and that goes against best practices - especially for SEO. Using your own CloudFlare account, you can use rewrite rules to force all traffic to one version (canonical).
- If you ever move away from Groove, you don't have to move all of your DNS records to another DNS host. Since they're in your own CloudFlare account, you simply have to make a few changes to point the records to your new host.
This tutorial is meant for a custom domain that is not being used for any other purpose, so starting from scratch with a custom domain.
Using an existing domain requires caution because if you don't move things to CloudFlare properly, you can break things with your existing websites, emails, etc.
