If your domain is registered with another company, you can use it with your Fodenflow hosting without transferring it. You just need to tell that company the domain now “lives” on our servers.
The details you need are in your dashboard: go to Hosting, click Manage hosting and look for the To point your domain to Fodenflow box in the Overview. It shows the nameservers and the IP address.
Recommended: nameservers
- Sign in to the company where you bought the domain (your registrar).
- Find the Nameservers (or DNS) section.
- Replace the current ones with the Fodenflow nameservers shown in your dashboard.
- Save the changes.
That way your website, email and subdomains are all managed from Fodenflow, with nothing else to set up.
Alternative: A records
If you'd rather keep your DNS where it is, create an A record for the domain (@) and another one for www at your provider, both pointing to the IP shown in your dashboard. With this option the website works, but email also needs its own records (MX): contact us and we'll give you the values.
DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to propagate worldwide. In the meantime some people may see your old site and others the new one: that's normal.
Once the domain points to Fodenflow, install the free SSL so your site has https. Stuck? Contact us and we'll do it with you.
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