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Getting Started with Secure Web Accelerator

Thank you for choosing Secure Web Accelerator (SWA), powered by Cloudflare®. In order to enable SWA for a website or domain zone, an account and an active domain name are required. Please refer to the appropriate knowledge base article listed:

What’s Next?

SWA enhances website security and performance using the Cloudflare global network. Powered by the Cloudflare global network, SWA provides DDoS protection, increases website speed, and blocks malicious cyberattacks before they can even reach your site. Below is a list of common tasks to manage the SWA family of products:

Manage DNS Resource Records

Choosing which DNS records to enable proxy for in SWA

Handling 3rd Party Name Servers

Purging Cache for all SWA Products

Enable Developer Mode for all SWA Products

Enable, Disable SWA or Cloudflare 

Enable DNSSEC for SWA Domain

Accessing Cloudflare Control Panel or Dashboard *

Enabling SWA Web Application Firewall (WAF) *

Enable SWA Image Optimization *

How To Upload Custom SSL/TLS Certificate *

* Available with SWA Plus or SWA Premium.



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