Hey Olly Connelly here of guvnr.com if you want to drop me on email. Today I’m going to take you through how to add in a domain zone for your virtual private server. This is part nine of my series set up and I manage VPS and here is the VPS Bible. And you can see all the details for this particular tutorial and all the tutorials in this series at the website and I've got all spiel here and all the kind of detail that you’re going to need to help you to create your DNS zone.
Let’s take an example, like for example you use linode.com and it takes me to my Linode Manager. Let’s just ignore that for now. We go into DNS manager. It’s exactly the same by the way. So you will find somewhere on your VPS provider most likely an option to add a new domain zone.
So, you’re going to click in that and I’m going to use the name of mydomain.com as an example. You can leave that as master and click continue and just put in an email address where you can be easily contactable. It’s going to turn on hosting of this domain immediately if you want to keep the main hosting turned off. Just for now you can change that. Ill be turning this off and straight away and that you can have the DNS manager insert some records for you very often which makes life a lot easier with Linode or you can add yours later on.
I’m just going to leave this time as a default and all the rest as default and take save. It would have looked to a little bit like this with my existing domain would have brought me to the screen here and it shows me my primary DNS server and the main servers.
The main servers—something else you need to know a little bit about, you’re going to have to direct those name servers to your VPS provider and so how do you do that? Well, if you think about for example where did I buy the domain name “wordwideweb.com”, where is it registered? Okay, with my case for example it’s registered with luckyregistered.com. So if I just go to my account details to that particular domain world wide web, I can see that amongst all the various options are my main servers. And so if I just click on those that will take me to a screen where I can change the name servers.
So for example if you’re transferring your site from I don’t know a shed host something like that to a VPS, you will just add your new name server in these boxes here. In my case it’s basically Linode one, two, three, and four. Then we’ll take a little bit of time to propagate. Once that’s done, your site will be able to result via those name servers in its records. The rest of this, you don’t have to worry about at the point of view of what we’re doing in this tutorial as one section of this tutorial series that often manage VPS. But you do need to that so we can continue with the series.
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I hope that’s been handy. All the best, bye-bye.
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