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

Posted September 16, 2015
DNS Deployment

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

Pavel Ostashevsky • September 16, 2015

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.

UserK • July 26, 2017

Thanks for both question and answer Gepp

sam kkc • September 17, 2015

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