General Guides

IP and domains

IP and domains

How to configure domain on Cloudflare

Make sure to have purchased a domain with your registrar.

1. A Record

When on Cloudflare, on the left you got a sidebar, click on DNS and then go to "Records"

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Then create your A record

In the "type" box select "A"

In the "Name" slot you can put numbers, letters or "@"

You may be wondering what is the name slot, we can say it's your domain prefix.

Example: I own Example.net, if I set "name" to play I have to put play.example.net to join my minecraft server

Else, if I put @ in there, I can join with example.net

In "IPv4" slot you will put your server's numerical ip

You may be wondering "how do I find it, it's showing a subdomain" to which I will answer with: there is this tutorial

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2. SRV Record

You may want to set this up if your port is not 25565

Create a second record

Make sure the "Type" is SRV and not A

In the "name" slot you put the same words you've done for your A record E.g. @, mc, play

In "service" slot put "_minecraft" (without the quotation marks)

"TTL" should be "Auto"

"Priority" should be a low number e.g. 0 or 1

"Weight" should be below 5

"Port" is your server port, which can be found in the console

"Target" has to be set to your domain/alias shown in the panel (view picture below)Cloudflare.webp

IP and domains

How to get numeric IPv4

As you might have noticed in your Panel, your server does not contain a IPv4 ,just an alias which could look like e-de-001.alienhost.net while this is easier to read and remember it is unfortunately not always usable in certain configurations and settings, with this guide we will show you how to use the given alias and turn it into numeric IPv4:

  1. Navigate to the following website.
  2. You will be prompted with a screen similar to this:

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  3. In the field saying Domain Name insert the visible alias of your server

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    To

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    and click the button Find DNS records.

  4. You will be prompted with a similar result to this:

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    Where you can see the IPv4 of your server. In this case, 195.201.85.213.


Great! Now you have your IPv4 and you are ready to use it.

How to use SFTP

How to use SFTP

Filezilla

1. Download

Download Filezilla (Client) by clicking here 


2. Getting credentials

Head to the settings tab of the server(s) you want to transfer files to

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3. Connecting

Now start Filezilla, it's going to look somewhat like this:

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In the host slot, enter the server address without the ":2022" (refer to the image in step 2)

In the username slot you put the user name (refer to the image in step 2)

In the password slot you put your panel's password

In the port slot you put "2022"

Should look like this:

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Now click "Quickconnect" and drag & drop the files you want to transfer

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Make sure to drag it in the correct folder/directory

How to use SFTP

WinSCP

1. Download

Download WinSCP


2. Getting credentials

Head to the settings tab of the server(s) you want to transfer files to

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3. Connecting

Connect by clicking Launch SFTP, a popup will appear on your screen.

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Click on "Open WinSCP"

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Put in your panel's password and click "Ok"

Now you should be connected (if the password was correct).

3a. How to transfer files

Select the file you want to transfer by left clicking on it, wait 1 or 2 seconds, now click on it again and drag it in the correct directory. You successfully transferred a file!