# Do I need Let's Encrypt with CloudFlare?

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/do-i-need-lets-encrypt-with-cloudflare/112952>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/do-i-need-lets-encrypt-with-cloudflare/112952 "2020-02-12T03:56:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZetaRevan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/zetarevan/32/37496_2.png) [@ZetaRevan](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ZetaRevan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/do-i-need-lets-encrypt-with-cloudflare/112952/3 "2020-02-12T04:08:10Z")

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Cloudflare encrypts the data between them & the browser. They offer several options with encrypting the traffic between your server and their edge service:  
You can run a self-signed, you can use their Origin Cert, or you can use your own Certificate, like Let’s Encrypt.

I personally use LE Certificates on my server anyway while Cloudflare provides their own Certs for the traffic to their service. Mainly because I like having control over the security of the data transfer from my server to Cloudflare.

Now I could turn their SSL off and bypass to go straight to my server for the HTTPS redirect, but I am also using their caching service, which saves me bandwidth.

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