title: let's encrypt vs cloudflare or both?
body: <p>I've been really confused between cloudflare's ssl and using let's encrypt to have my website become full https.</p>
  
  <p>Many sources say to use either or use both.
  However there is not a very decisive way to figure out whether to use both or just use one over the other. </p>
  
  <p>In most cases, people love cloudflare because it is a free CDN. 
  And it comes with a simple way of setting up SSL</p>
  
  <p>However it looks like Let's Encrypt is the next big thing and it would be silly not to learn more about it. </p>
  
  <p>Some people say that Cloudflare is enough..
  <a href="http://community.rtcamp.com/t/letsencrypt-with-cloudflare/5659" rel="noreferrer">http://community.rtcamp.com/t/letsencrypt-with-cloudflare/5659</a></p>
  
  <p>Some have gone to extreme lengths to set up both
  <a href="https://medium.com/@benjamincaldwell/better-ssl-tls-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-with-nginx-and-cloudflare-9f01f89940cd#.tlhx6g5in" rel="noreferrer">https://medium.com/@benjamincaldwell/better-ssl-tls-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-with-nginx-and-cloudflare-9f01f89940cd#.tlhx6g5in</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-get-a-lets-encrypt-certificate-while-using-cloudflare/6338?u=pfg" rel="noreferrer">https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-get-a-lets-encrypt-certificate-while-using-cloudflare/6338?u=pfg</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://pushincome.com/cloudflare-lets-encrypt-free-ssl-setup-ubuntu-apache/" rel="noreferrer">http://pushincome.com/cloudflare-lets-encrypt-free-ssl-setup-ubuntu-apache/</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://flurdy.com/docs/letsencrypt/nginx.html" rel="noreferrer">https://flurdy.com/docs/letsencrypt/nginx.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I was wondering what was the best way to setup let's encrypt properly to use with cloudflare still as a CDN for my content.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>