Hey guys, I use domains.google to manage my domains
I’ve reverted back to googles name servers and wonder what it is that I might be missing
historically with VPS’s I’ve just pointed an A Record to the IP of the web server hosting my site and it’s worked
is this not the case with DO ?
or am I overthinking this and it just needs time to propagate (and me remove domain information from the networking tab ?)
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Hey friend!
You’re on the right track. You point the A record to your droplet with us, problem solved. Propagation may be relevant, I usually give 4-6 hours for the common TLDs under average conditions. The rule of thumb is 48 hours but I’m comfortable saying you’ve got something worth digging into for troubleshooting if the end of that timer is anywhere in sight.
Jarland
Curious why you’ve reverted domain management back to Google domains. Can you share a bit on that real quick?
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