Site deployment failure

[woeful valve]

I am trying to deploy my hmtown.com site.
Most recently, I was offered https://d8c4c384.test2-6dy.pages.dev as evidence that my efforts worked. I clicked on the link; “Not found” was the response. Clicking on hmtown.com gave a blank page.
A helpful person on Discord had me do something that prevented a browser timeout when clicking on hmtown.com. I have created several failed test deployments which I can not remove because they are all the most current deployment.
My attempts to deploy started with github.com, ventured into deploying a local repo, and finally via dragging a local directory into hmtown.com.
Discord help mentioned something about a remnant of godaddy.com in my DNS configuration. I talked with GoDaddy; they didn’t see anything.
I have a free site. Could this be my problem? If it is, the failures I’m getting are not helpful.

[exotic sequoia]

looks like cloudflare is proxying traffic to your godaddy landing page

have you tried to setup pages on the domain?

[woeful valve]

Where do you see Cloudflare proxying hmtown.com traffic to anything GoDaddy?

[exotic sequoia]

site resolves to godaddy

headers indicate it has been through cloudflare

you need to point your dns records to a webserver

what do your dns records look like ?

[woeful valve]

GoDaddy was my original home for hmtown.com. I called and GD could not see any GD. Please tell me how to 100% remove GD. (Except for the site-privacy thing which expires in late September.)

[exotic sequoia]

on your cloudflare dashboard navigate to dns

[woeful valve]

I did. How do I recognize GoDaddy?

[exotic sequoia]

there will be an A or AAAA record pointing to an ip address

if you just setup the domain and arent doing anything with it there probably shouldnt be any others

[woeful valve]

One DNS Type A record points to Cloudflare. The only other Type A is 3.33.130.190, which points to Amazon. Is that proper?
No AAAA types use the 4 numbers with dots between them format. I found one for Microsoft 365 (possibly for email)

[exotic sequoia]

you need to point them at your own webserver if you want to host your own content

however generally if u only wanna host static content then an alternative solution is probably better

[woeful valve]

I need to add
NS bethany.ns.cloudflare.com
NS tim.ns.cloudflare.com
But with NS I seem to need Name and Content. Should I use hmtown.com as Name?

[exotic sequoia]

if you are in cloudflare

then your nameservers are already cloudflare

[woeful valve]

Tried to add bethany etc; rejected.
One type A is 3.33.130.190 which points to Amazon. Is that proper?

[exotic sequoia]

if you dont have a webserver it shouldnt be pointing to anything