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Confused about DNS settings
Jessica Del Vecchio
asked this on Feb 15 08:23
Is the host of my website going to be Nimbus? Or do I keep my current host? I have multiple sites but my main website hosts not just my website but also lots of slideshows, blog images, marketing materials, email, etc. So I do not want to get rid of my current host. I have a separate domain that is "empty" - not containing other items that I could use and just forward my main site to it. Is this what I want to do?
I asked the question to my host provider about how to change the CNAME and this was the response:
Hello,
You can create the necessary CNAME record through the DNS Manager section of your hosting account's online Control Panel. The record you should create is:
Type: CNAME Subdomain: www Target: nimbus.shootq.com TTL: leave the default value |
However, if you are going to use another hosting service (Nimbus), you could let your hosting account lapse, and set the CNAME record via the domain management interface at https://domains.suresupport.com. You can log in with your domain name jessicadelvecchiophotography.com and your current hosting account password. There you need to change the DNS settings for your domain name to Registrar Nameservers, and then recreate the CNAME record to point your domain name to Nimbus. Otherwise, when your account expires, our name servers will stop replying to DNS queries for your domain name, and you may experience downtime.
I am not sure which is what I want to do. Thank you.
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Hey Jessica,
For the slideshows you do with a 3rd party program like Showit or something else, those will still need to be hosted outside of Nimbus since we do not have the option at this time to upload those to Nimbus and then link some where on your Nimbus site pages or blog posts. Unless you can find some way to get the slideshows saved as a movie to upload to Vimeo or YouTube then you can link them on your Nimbus pages and Blog posts.
Setting up the DNS though makes it so that you set that up to forward on that if someone goes to www.jessicarocks.com or whatever site you have it will go to your Nimbus link.
Hope this helps!
-Logan
Hi Logan! So if I have just a domain but no hosting, that will work? (I have 2 - jessicadelvecchiophotography.com that doesn't have anything uploaded to it and jessicadelvecchio.com that has all my slideshows, etc.) So, what I want to do is use the first one for Nimbus and just point jessicadelvecchio.com to NImbus. I am not clear though if I list these both within the NImbus DNS page and if I need to to the CNAME for both. I don't understand what the effect on my current site is when I do this. Sorry if I am being dense! I read through everything on the help hub but it is still not making sense to me (and I am usually able to pick up on this stuff fairly quickly!).
Thank you!
Its ok Jessica. I had issue with ti at first. You need to change the DNS settings for the domain on your hosting site and then in Nimbus as well. What that does is just forward anyone to your Nimbus site if they go to either one of those URLs if you set up the CNAME settings on your web hosting.
-Logan
I did and it is working for www.jessicadelvecchiophotography.com but if you just go to jessicadelvecchiophotography.com it doesn't - just still says "got new host"
I am also not clear what will happen when I do the same thing for my actual current site - jessicadelvecchio.com - will people still be able to access their slideshows? I have years upon years worth of slideshows and blog images that I don't want to suddenly disappear.
Thank you for the help!
I just tested and jessicadelvecchiophotography.com is routing me to www.jessicadelvecchiophotography.com. With anything that is already on the servers for your hosting company, they will stay there and and previous posts will take them to your other blog I assume depending on how your hosting company now works. If you want to migrate those old posts into Nimbus then you will need to do that and then re-post your slideshows into that blog posts on Nimbus.
From doing the DNS all it does is re-rout to your Nimbus site, but if anyone has a direct link to your old blog posts or slideshow then those should still work. I believe.
-Logan