How to connect your domain to your hosting

Having your domain with one company and your hosting with another is very common. You don't need to transfer it: you just tell your registrar that the domain now “lives” on our servers. Here are the two ways to do it and what to check afterwards.

Before you start

• An active hosting plan at Fodenflow.
• Access to the dashboard of the company where you registered the domain (your registrar).
• Your hosting details: go to Hosting, click Manage hosting and find the To point your domain to Fodenflow box in the Overview. It shows the nameservers and the IP address.

If you registered the domain with us, you usually don't need to change anything: it already uses our nameservers. You can check it under Domains.

Option 1: change the nameservers (recommended)

This way your website, email and subdomains are all managed from your Fodenflow dashboard.

These are the Fodenflow nameservers (the same ones shown in your dashboard):

ns1.fodenflow01.com
ns2.fodenflow01.com

1. Sign in to your registrar and find Nameservers (sometimes called DNS).
2. Replace the current ones with the two Fodenflow nameservers.
3. Save the changes.

For .ar domains the change is made at NIC Argentina (in the delegation step). The help center has a guide for .ar domains.

Option 2: A records (if you want to keep your DNS where it is)

If you'd rather keep managing DNS at your provider, create two records there pointing to your hosting's IP (the one in the Overview box):

Type   Name   Value
A      @      your hosting IP
A      www    your hosting IP

With this option the website works, but email also needs its own records (MX and the verification ones). Write to us from Support and we'll send you the exact values.

How long it takes

DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to show up worldwide (it's usually much less). In the meantime some people see the old site and others the new one: that's normal.

To check which nameservers your domain has, in a terminal:

nslookup -type=ns yourdomain.com

Turn on free SSL

Once the domain points to your hosting, install the certificate so the site opens with https:

1. In Hosting, click Manage hosting and open the SSL tab.
2. On the domain that says No certificate, click Install SSL. It can take a couple of minutes.

The certificate is free and renews itself. If it fails, it's almost always because DNS hasn't propagated yet: wait a while and try again.

If something doesn't work

• Make sure there are no old A records left for the same name.
• Read Connect a domain you have elsewhere and the DNS records guide.
• And if you get stuck, contact us: we'll do it with you.