# Einrichten von SSL mit meinem Domainnamen und Discourse-Instanz **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [17. Oktober 2016 um 05:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-ssl-with-my-domain-name-and-discourse-instance/51626 "2016-10-17T05:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)\ **Post date:** [19. Oktober 2016 um 21:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-ssl-with-my-domain-name-and-discourse-instance/51626/5 "2016-10-19T21:03:44Z")
The main purpose of the SSL in my mind was to attempt to get around the problem of having port 80 blocked by my ISP. I was hoping I could channel everything through port 443 by getting an SSL. I may be way off in my understanding of how this all works, but that was my original intention. Security was definitely a strong second reason. I’ve found some promising potential solutions, and Cloudflare is written down as something I need to check out. > [@SouperC](#): > > You also get to masquerade the IP address of your server behind their nameservers. This is something that is very important to me, so that’s fantastic if it ends up working the way I would need it to. In the end, I would love to have performance benefits, security, and mask my the IP of my webserver using the domain name I purchased, but we’ll see if I can pull all that off. I’m learning as I go 🙂 Anyway, thanks for pointing me to Cloudflare! I’ll reply to this page or edit my initial post with whatever I end up settling with just in case it’s helpful to others down the road. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-ssl-with-my-domain-name-and-discourse-instance/51626)._