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Domains

A flow’s site doesn’t have to live on your hosting — it can live with us: we rent a dedicated server, connect a domain to it, turn on HTTPS and install the filtering ourselves. All that’s left for you is to upload your pages and pick the domain in the flow. The Domains section is in the dashboard menu.

Paid plans only

Ordering servers, uploading pages and linking flows is available to customers on a paid plan. On the trial, you can look around the section, but the “On our server” option in the flow is unavailable.

Ordering

Click Connect a domain and go through the steps.

  1. Domain. Type a name, and we’ll show the available names in every zone with the price per year; you can sort them and filter by zone. If you already have a domain, switch to I have a domain and enter it.
  2. Server. Choose a country. The server is dedicated to your sites only, has its own IP and is abuse-resistant: the risk of being blocked is lower, though it can’t be ruled out entirely. If you already have a server, you can put the new site on it — you don’t pay for the server twice. This is also where you turn on backups and DDoS protection; each is billed monthly together with the server.
  3. Contact. The details of the owner the domain is registered to. Only the registrar sees them. You fill them in once and pick them from saved contacts after that. In zones that allow it, the domain is registered anonymously.
  4. Management. Who manages the domain’s settings. We'll set it up — the domain is pointed at your server right away, nothing for you to do. In my own service — for example, if you keep your domains in Cloudflare: enter at least two of that service’s name servers, and you’ll point the domain at the server yourself.
  5. Payment. The server and the domain come on one invoice, paid in crypto: USDT, BTC, ETH or TON. The server’s first month is cheaper, then it’s the regular monthly price; the domain is paid for a year.

With your own domain there are three steps: domain, server, payment. The domain stays where you bought it: once the server is up, its IP appears on the card — put it in the domain’s A record.

Setup

After payment, everything runs on its own, and you can close the page. First the payment is processed — usually within an hour; longer if the network is congested, but there’s nothing you need to do. Then the server is launched and configured (usually 10–15 minutes), the domain is registered, HTTPS is turned on, and we check that the site opens. The domain card shows which step the setup is at.

  • Waiting for the domain to go live. DNS changes spread across the internet in anywhere from a few minutes to a day. Setup waits as long as it takes and carries on by itself — this step never ends in an error.
  • Your own Cloudflare. Enter the server IP from the card there. With “We'll set it up”, the server address is visible to everyone; to hide it, connect the domain through your own Cloudflare.

Pages

When the server and the domain are ready, the Sites tab opens. It holds three kinds of pages: offers (where the flow sends traffic; you can have several for rotation), pre-landers and White Pages — the safe pages for reviews.

  1. Click Add, give the page a name — that’s how you’ll pick it in the flow — and upload a .zip archive. The archive root must contain the main page: index.html or index.php.
  2. While the page is being deployed, a spinner shows next to it and the buttons are inactive. The link appears once the page is live.
  • A page can be turned off, copied, downloaded as an archive, re-uploaded (the address stays the same) and deleted. Every file opens in the built-in code editor: edit, upload, rename, copy.
  • If the pre-lander’s buttons have no {click_url}, the address is filled in automatically; if the offer’s form has no click_id, a hidden field is added.
  • The file that handles filtering is marked “ours”: we keep it updated, and it can’t be changed or deleted.

A flow on our server

  1. In the flow form, under Where to host the site, choose On our server and the domain. No domain yet? The Connect a domain button opens the order.
  2. For offers and the White Page, choose Page from domain — the pages uploaded to that domain.
  3. Save the flow. There’s nothing to install: we put the flow file on the server and keep it updated ourselves.
  • The ad link is the domain itself, for example https://your-domain.com/. In the flow list, a spinner replaces the copy button until the link starts opening.
  • Several flows can run on one domain, each in its own folder. The folder is set by Offer path after the pre-landing: with the path promo/start, the ad link is your-domain.com/promo/. Two flows with the same folder can’t share a domain.
  • You can move a flow from your hosting to ours and back at any time. When you switch, the previous server and domain can be turned off right away or stopped later in the Domains section.

Renewal

  • The server renews monthly at the regular price, together with backups and DDoS protection if they’re on. An invoice is issued 7 days before the paid month ends, and you pay it.
  • If the invoice isn’t paid by the due date, the server stops and the sites on it stop opening. Paying starts it again. After 30 days stopped, the server is released and the sites on it are erased.
  • A domain registered through us renews for a year: the invoice comes 30 days before it expires. A domain bought elsewhere is renewed where you bought it.
  • Cancel service on the domain card: no renewal invoice will be issued, the site keeps working until the paid-up date and then goes offline. Changed your mind? Click Resume.

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