How to Point Your Domain to Your Hosting Account

If you bought your domain from one company and your hosting from another, you'll need to connect the two manually. It sounds technical, but the process is mostly copy-and-paste.

Step 1: Get your hosting's nameservers

Your hosting provider will give you nameserver addresses (usually two, like ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com) in your hosting account dashboard.

Step 2: Log in to your domain registrar

Go to wherever you registered your domain and find the DNS or nameserver settings for that specific domain.

Step 3: Replace the existing nameservers

Swap out the current nameservers for the ones provided by your new host.

Step 4: Wait for propagation

This change can take anywhere from a few minutes to 24-48 hours to fully take effect across the internet. Your site may be intermittently reachable through both old and new hosting during this window.

Step 5: Confirm everything works

Once propagation completes, visit your domain and check that your site, and any email accounts tied to it, are working correctly.