3 months ago
I am trying to set up mydomain.com on DNS Made Easy and am confused with the instructions.
I have
an A Record for the apex domain mydomain.com pointed to an old ip address
an A Record for "www" pointed to the old ip address as well
I deleted www.mydomain.com. A xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Then I added www.mydomain.com CNAME asdf1234.up.railway.app.
This seemed to be okay.
However it seems like I cannot set up an A record for the apex domain and point it to a railway provided ip address. Is this true?
However, I also cannot set up a CNAME record for the apex domain as I suppose this is just (definitionally) impossible(?).
Is the safest and most straightforward path ahead to simply migrate to Cloudflare from DNS Made Easy?
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3 months ago
Did you get the CNAME records for your deployment working?
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Status changed to Open brody • 3 months ago
3 months ago
IIRC you should not be using an A record to map your domain to your service. You should map your service's public URL to your domain as a CNAME record.
I have not used DNS Made Easy before but i can tell you that Cloudflare is pretty easy and straightforward to use as a DNS provider.
3 months ago
I was transferred over to Cloudflare a couple hours ago! Less painful than I realized it would be
3 months ago
Did you get the CNAME records for your deployment working?
3 months ago
No not yet, I just moved everything over to Cloudflare without any changes yet to our legacy infra/app. Will cut the release for railway later today after our traffic drops 
Status changed to Solved brody • 3 months ago