# Installing over DigitalOcean and Namecheap?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [8월 24, 2018, 8:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-over-digitalocean-and-namecheap/95598 "2018-08-24T20:01:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [8월 28, 2018, 12:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-over-digitalocean-and-namecheap/95598/4 "2018-08-28T00:00:50Z")

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You shouldn’t do this – it’s _far_ more common for DNS controls to be at the place where people originally purchased their domain name.

I suppose CloudFlare becoming more dominant has made this less common over time, but Digital Ocean ain’t exactly offering the service that CloudFlare is, either.

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