By hambos22
Hello. I built a website for my client and I want it to host it in digitalocean. My client doesn’t want to change his email platform and he wants to keep it in the previous server. So I thought to add an A RECORD on the previous server to point to DigitalOcean’s one. Ok this is easy. But I don’t know that to do in the domain’s nameservers. I’ll keep the present nameservers or I should add DigitalOcean’s? And also what should I do in DNS setting of the droplet?
Thank you
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It will probably be easiest for you to keep your current nameservers and just add the A record for the domain (and www if you use that) …point those to your droplet IP.
No need to do anything with the digital ocean DNS since you will not be using that.
In theory, yes. Once you add that A-record, it might take a little time for it to start working across the internets.
NOTE* If you create an A record for a sub-domain, just type in the part of the sub-domain (like www or forum, rather than typing in forum.yourdomain.com )
A lot of people seem to make that mistake and wonder why it is not working
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