I currently connect to my droplets via SSH and SFTP by specifying the droplet’s IP address and port 22 in the SSH/SFTP client programs. This works fine, but I would like to be able to specify a domain or subdomain (e.g., ftp.example.com) rather than an IP address. Managed hosts I’ve used in the past provided me with a subdomain for that purpose, but I have not been able to find out how to set that up on my droplets. Can someone give me some pointers?
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Well, You would need your own domain, Once you have your domain, in your domain registrar’s domain settings you can set up an A record and point that to your droplet’s IP Address.
You may need to wait for DNS to update. A record is all there is to point a subdomain to a server so I am not sure what is causing your problem other than your registrar being slow to update their DNS or your DNS server not updating their records.
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