Custom domain with A record (not CNAME record)
Hi,
I want to add a custom domain in one of my projects.
Docs says I need to add a CNAME record in my provider. Unfortunately it's not a subdomain but main domain and my provider told me I need to use A record instead of CNAME ... so I wanted to do it, but ... record A needs IP address to be inserted, not an address.
So please help me what IP address I need to provide ?
project ID: a6c82679-0cee-4169-9d24-90060e2cc48a
Looking forward to your help
PEgaz
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you won't be able to use an IP address because the IP address of the deployments are dynamic and shared, and a new deployment has a chance of having a different IP than the last one, this is why you do need to use a CNAME, and you will need to use nameservers that support root level cname aliases, namecheap, cloudflare, dnsimple, etc
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Project ID:
a6c82679-0cee-4169-9d24-90060e2cc48aproject ID: a6c82679-0cee-4169-9d24-90060e2cc48a
Solution
you won't be able to use an IP address because the IP address of the deployments are dynamic and shared, and a new deployment has a chance of having a different IP than the last one, this is why you do need to use a CNAME, and you will need to use nameservers that support root level cname aliases, namecheap, cloudflare, dnsimple, etc
Thank you for answer. It's a pity, I don't want to have another provider just for one domain only for this purpose 😦 We'll see how it goes, thanks again.
oh you dont need to transfer the domain, you only need to use their nameservers