a year ago
When I put the "Host" as @ and the type as CNAME on squarespace, it doesnt let me do it
is there a way to work around this? im very new to networking
25 Replies
a year ago
squarespace likely doesn't support root level domain names then
I'd recommend using cloudflare as a DNS server instead
you can do that by going to cloudflare, signing up, adding your website and following the prompts
once that's done you can add the CNAME on @ on Cloudflare and use it on Railway
alternatively, you could just use a subdomain, like www.example.com if you don't want to do allat
also squarespace wont even let me change the nameservers to the cloudflare ones bra…..
a year ago
no it can actually take up to 2 days for DNS changes to be made
a year ago
how're you on cloudflare then?
a year ago
idk i jus skipped the part where it told me to delete the squaredspace nameservers
according to chatpgt it dont matter the only difference is my website will get fried if it gets ddosed
which ion get why arents nameservers just used for browsers to find your website
ohhh ok so i just realised it literally wont host the website if i dont change the nameservers
a year ago
yea you'll need to actually change your nameserver to cloudflare
what you're basically doing is telling traffic that if they want information about your domain, they should look for it in this server (which you'll want to set as cloudflare's server), then cloudflare's server will tell traffic to find your website at the railway domain that you were given, which itself well internally route your traffic to your container
a year ago
happy to help 🫡
a year ago
!s
Status changed to Solved dev • 11 months ago
