Before you begin, you will need to purchase your own domain through a domain name registrar like GoDaddy, Network Solutions, or netfirms.
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To begin, you will need your applications IP Address.
- You may use the terminal provided under the "Advanced Options" section of Standing Cloud's management page to issue an ifconfig command against your server to find its IP Address.
- You may also ping your application's URL to find its IP Address.
- Next, log into your domain name registrar's console.
- Navigate to your DNS Management page. The location and name of this page will vary by host, but can generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings.
- Find the A Record settings and enter the host name the A record links to. Enter @ to map the record directly to your domain name*.
- Set the IP Address to the address that you found above.
- If prompted for a TTL (Time To Live), please choose "1 Hour" or something close to an hour if this is not an option.
Warnings:
- Entering @ will allow you and your users to access your site directly (for example: http://acme.com); however, if configured incorrectly, you may break other sites or services that are using this domain.
- If your IP address changes, you will need to change your A Record to map to the new IP Address.
- For some applications, you may need to do some additional work to configure your application to use the new domain name.