# How do you setup Cloudflare?

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How: Just stand up a nginx with a single proxy\_pass rule at OVH (“the premier bargain basement cloud provider”) or something.

You CANNOT put long polling behind CloudFlare. They terminate long-running requests as, incidentally, a anti-DoS measure.

Because DDoS protection is a priority for you, set up this server at a DIFFERENT provider so attacks on it do not actually take down the main site; you just get degraded live update functionality.

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