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Pointing your domain to your hosting

Updated May 21, 2026

If your domain is registered somewhere else (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Hostinger…), you need to point it at our servers.

The easy way — change nameservers

This hands DNS control to us, so you can manage records in cPanel.

  1. Look at the welcome email — it lists two nameservers like ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com.
  2. Log in to wherever you bought the domain.
  3. Find Nameservers or DNS Management.
  4. Choose Custom nameservers and paste the two you got from us.
  5. Save. Propagation takes 1–24 hours (usually under an hour).

The other way — A record

Use this if you only want one specific subdomain on us, with the rest staying where it is.

  1. Find your server's IP address — welcome email or cPanel sidebar.
  2. In your existing DNS provider, add an A record: name = @ (or the subdomain), value = the IP, TTL = 3600.
  3. Add a second A record for www pointing to the same IP.

How to check it worked

Use dnschecker.org — type your domain and wait until most regions show the new value.

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