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I have domain on Godaddy and hosting on DigitalOcean, can I link both of them to run a website??

Posted September 16, 2015 35.9k views
DNS Deployment

I have recently bought a domain thinking that I will be able to use my hosting on DigitalOcean. Can I do that??

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  • Ost September 16, 2015
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    Yes. Set up a web server on your droplet and edit GoDaddy’s DNS settings to point at your droplet’s IP address (Using A records).

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MrPeppah September 16, 2015

Yes you can.

You will need to point your domain at DigitalOceans nameservers OR just a A-Record to the server’s IP. If you choose to just want to use your domain with DO’s nameservers just change the nameservers within GoDaddy to ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, and ns3.digitalocean.com and then go in your DigitalOcean panel and DNS at the top and add your domain.

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  • nicooga September 19, 2016

    Can you elaborate on this please?

    • Is not enough to point the domain to the droplet’s IP?
    • What’s the advantage of using DO’s nameservers?
    • What’s the purpose of adding the domain at DO’s web interface?
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kkc September 17, 2015
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UserK July 26, 2017

Thanks for both question and answer
Gepp

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