This article is a guide for customers on Hustly managed WordPress hosting packages, who have their domain name registered with GoDaddy and want to use Hustly as their primary DNS.
Many of our customers tend to have registered their domain names with GoDaddy and use Hustly for our premium WordPress hosting services. If you are one of those customers, here is a simple and foolproof guide to configure your GoDaddy registered domain name with Hustly WordPress hosting.
PLEASE NOTE THAT CHANGING DOMAINS WILL LEAD TO YOUR WEBSITE GOING OFFLINE TEMPORARILY. NAMESERVER CHANGES CAN TAKE UP TO 48 HOURS TO PROPAGATE
If you are a Hustly customer and unable to do this yourself, please reach out to our support to have your domains setup by us at no extra cost.
Before you start this guide, please ensure that the domain you want to configure has been added to Hustly. While you are signing up for your Hustly WordPress hosting account, we would have already asked you to connect your domain. If you have not connected this domain yet, please add the concerned domain either from your Hustly hosting account or your hosting admin panel.
Step 1: Retrieve your domain’s IP address from Hustly
In order to complete this step, you need to be logged into either your Hustly website management app or your Hustly hosting admin panel, ideally from a modern web browser on a desktop or laptop sized device.
If you are retrieving these records from the Hustly website management app, you will need to navigate to the IP & NAMESERVERS section.
Copy your server’s IP address.
Step 2: Update your domain’s DNS records with GoDaddy
Log in to GoDaddy Domain Manager and find your domain name. Select the domain name, scroll down to the “Additional Settings” section, and then click “Manage DNS” on the right.
You will need to add 2 records:
1. An A record pointing to your Hustly server’s IP Address:
Type: A
Name: @ (or leave it blank).
IPv4 address or Host: IP Address you copied in Step 1.
2. A CNAME record for the www subdomain:
Type: CNAME
Name: www
Target / Destination: yourdomainname.com
Once you have updated your DNS records, please wait at least 15-20 minutes before your proceed to Step 3. Once DNS records are updated, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to up to 48 hours in some cases, for DNS records to propagate.
You can use a third party tool such as whatsmydns to monitor how your DNS changes are propagating across the internet in real time.
Step 3: Install an SSL certificate on your Hustly server.
Login to your hosting admin panel (Plesk). Find and navigate to the SSL/TLS Certificates section, in the Dashboard tab for your domain.
This section will show you the available options to install an SSL certificate. Choose the first Let’s Encrypt option.
In the installation options, please disable the “Secure the wildcard domain” option. If you want the “wildcard” option enabled, you will need to add an additional acme-challenge record to your Cloudflare DNS settings. The panel will prompt you with the records to add, during the installation process. In most cases, it is okay to keep this option disabled. The settings shown in the image below, should work for most cases.
Proceed to install the SSL Certificate and let the installation finish.
That’s it!
You have finished configuring your GoDaddy domain to use Hustly as your primary DNS server. Your website will be up and running once changes come into effect. Propagation can take up to 24 hours. The entire process should be error free, if you have followed all the steps. Please note that sometimes domain names changes take some time to propagate. This could take over 48 hours. If you see any errors, please repeat the steps above.
Want to fine tune your domain settings or install SSL certificates? See our detailed domain setup guide here.
We hope you found this guide useful. Please let us know what you think in the comments section below.
