Setting up domain and DO nameservers

[matotubol (Martin Bilicky)]

I’m setting up my forum but i was just wondering if i should use Digitalocean’s nameservers or not.
or should i only point my website to DO ipadress?

thanks in advance

[Umashankar_Ankuri (Umashankar)]

Hi there,

It’s better to use Digital Ocean DNS than just using domain provider’s (ex., godaddy /namecheap) default DNS

• Change Name servers at Domain Registrar (godaddy) to Digital Ocean Nameservers (ns1.digitalocean.com etc)
  Now you can manage DNS records at digital ocean
• Add A record to point to Digital Ocean droplet IP (domain.com) in Digital Ocean Networking

Hope this helps

[merefield (Robert)]

@Umashankar_Ankuri

It’s better to use Digital Ocean DNS than just using domain provider’s (ex., godaddy /namecheap) default DNS

Really? I don’t think that’s the recommended approach:

Installing over DigitalOcean and Namecheap?

You need a DNS A record for discourse.guidekeeper.com pointing to the IP address of your server. Nameservers are generally provided by the company that you purchased the domain name from, not Digital Ocean. So you likely want to change it using the DNS control panel at the place you purchased the domain name from. In the event that you are using Digital Ocean’s nameservers (but why?) then you would need to change it using the DNS control panel at Digital Ocean.

[Umashankar_Ankuri (Umashankar)]

It really depends on where domain purchased. Some domain registrar’s DNS lookup times are really horrible.
yes. but as suggested by @codinghorror the thread contains all relevant information to choose which way you should go

Thank you.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Some domain registrar’s DNS lookup times are really horrible.

And some of them have horrible interfaces for management.

If you don’t have enough traffic that you’ve hired someone who has a strong opinion, it mostly doesn’t matter as long as you can remember where it is that you need to go to make changes next time you need to.