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Using Launchrock with DigitalOcean

Posted on October 1, 2013

Hi,

I have a website which had LaunchRock landing page. My domain is registered with GoDaddy and in order for me to re-direct my domain to the launchrock page I had to add a CNAME record in my GoDaddy account.

Having just signed up with DigitalOcean (Droplet: 512 MB RoR on Ubuntu) I’m trying to setup my host name following instructions (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean). I changed my nameservers to ns1.digitalocean.com ns2.digitalocean.com and ns3.digitalocean.com Ever since I did that my site has gone down and I cannot even ping it.

What should I do?



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UPDATE: My domain now leads to the Welcome to RoR page (Which is the default page for the RoR server). On GoDaddy, I added a CNAME record for LaunchRock:
<br>signup (host name) host.launchrock.com (Points To)

If you are going to be using DigitalOcean’s nameservers, then you should <b>not</b> be creating DNS records on GoDaddy. Instead, you need to utilize DigitalOcean’s <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/digitalocean-labs-presents-dns-management”>DNS Manager</a>. <br> <br>If you want to use GoDaddy’s DNS Control Panel, then you can <b>not</b> use DigitalOcean’s nameservers. Instead, you should use GoDaddy’s nameservers

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