Control Panel Setup

I am trying to get a hosting solution set up on my droplet but I am running into a ton of problems and through all of the posts and tutorials I can’t seem to get a straight solution.

All I want to do is getting a multisite server with email hosting up and running for multiple wordpress sites. I have tried the following panels (vesta, webmin + virtualmin, centos web panel, ajenti, plesk, etc).

I am able to get the control panel up and running and can access the admin section using the domain name but I am unable to access the additional domains added to the server nor am I able to access the original domain.

In the case of my Vesta attempt: panel.example.com:8083 -> Can access example.com -> Cannot Acces (“Site Cannot Be Reached”) example.com:8083 -> Can Access example2.com -> Cannot Access example2.com:8083 -> Can Access

I have set up the glue records for example.com at my registrar and set example2.com to ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com. Both example.com and example2.com have been removed from digital ocean dns

When doing a DNS check on webdnstools.com everything checks good.

An A record lookup of my domain points to my droplet’s floating IP and the admin panel works so why is the website itself not working? (the default vesta page that says the site is working)

I don’t know if I am overthinking this whole process, or I am running into problems with DNS propagation but for some reason I cannot wrap my head around this. I really don’t care if I use digitalocean nameservers or my own built in to the CP so is there an easier and more surefire way to do this?

After reading through multiple tutorials some say to set up a vanity NS and others say to point your domain to digital ocean so I am thinking I am getting tripped up. If someone has the time to give me some guidance it would be much appreciated.

-Kyle