# DigitalOcean と Namecheap 上へのインストールは可能ですか？

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [2018 年 8 月 24 日午後 8:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-over-digitalocean-and-namecheap/95598 "2018-08-24T20:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [2018 年 8 月 28 日午後 11:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-over-digitalocean-and-namecheap/95598/10 "2018-08-28T23:42:42Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Digital Ocean allows only one account to be in control of a given domain. If you own a domain, creating a record keeps anyone else from trying to create records for your domain. I doubt that hijacking a domain by creating records in Digital Ocean and then re-directing the registrar to use DO’s name servers is a thing, but if it were, this would help.

Wow, so you **did** mean that. No, that’s not even a remote possibility. The NS records for the domain in question would have to point at DO before their nameservers would respond to requests for your domain. There’s no means to hijack a domain in this way.

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> And it makes things slower for the user every time the TTL expires.

In the case of Cloudflare it’s an 8 millisecond request every five minutes, in the case of DO it’s ~14 milliseconds every 60 minutes. I’m impressed if you’re saying you can tell the difference.

None of the above is a case to move from the likes of registrars such as GoDaddy or Namecheap over to DO. From what you’ve admitted the decision appears to have been led by a fundamental misunderstanding of DNS.

In the above comparisons we didn’t touch on the other differentiators that CloudFlare offers, features such as inbound rules, apps and their reverse proxy.

I do hope you revisit this because you’re doing your customers a great disservice even suggesting migrating DNS to DO. As you’ve already mentioned there’s the risk that they may move a domain without preserving records (unlike cloudflare they don’t appear to grab DNS records prior to transfer), there’s zero meaningful performance benefit, and a much greater chance of downtime during any migration.

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