Parking for Pennies (or less) — Part 4

DNS Configuration

DNS Provider — Registrars

The domain name needs to be pointed at the CDN service. This varies depending upon the registrar and the CDN provider chosen. I use the DNS provided my registrars where possible. Some CDN like Netlify can support your DNS as well.

I followed the directions Netlify provided and was able to point domains from multiple registrars to their service just fine.

A root domain or apex record will need special attention.

An apex record requires an ALIAS pointing to their load balancer, or an A record

I use an A record, even though that IP address could change without me knowing. My registrar doesn’t support ALIAS records. They do however support redirection all misspelled names to the name of my choosing, in this case www.maxpets.com.

Each registrar will have different options. Reach out if you need help.

Additional Parts of this Article

Medium was having problems with a large story so I had to break it up.
Part 1 — OverviewPart
Part 2 — Creating Site Flows
Part 3 — Publishing to a CDN with GitHub and Netlify
Part 4 — DNS Configuration

Previous Articles in the Series

Part 1 — Parking for Pennies
Part 2 — AWS SSL Certificates
Part 3 — Mass Hosting Paradigm
Part 4 — Not Content with Contentful
Part 5 — Introducing TachyonCMS
Part 6 — Parking for Pennies (or less) — Part 1
Part 6b — Parking for Pennies (or less) — Part 2
Part 6c — Parking for Pennies (or less) — Part 3