DNS And Nameservers

[Slowrider8]

Hello,

We have been attempting to set up a website on our VPS for a few days now.

We bought a domain (closequartercuties.co.uk) from GoDaddy, and I managed to set it up with an A record to point it to our server IP and 2 CNAMES to add some subdomains. I and a few other members of the community were able to connect using the domain name to a basic Apache server we set up the on VPS. However, other members were either brought to a blank page or told the page was still parked by GoDaddy. When setting up the domain, I was told to wait 24-48 hours, however, it has been around 40 and the same people are having the same problems.

This brought me to looking into Nameservers and this support page for GoDaddy: https://uk.godaddy.com/help/change-name ... omains-664
Which states that for a website hosted on a VPS I should be creating my own Nameservers and then changing the domain to use them. As such, I made two Hostnames for ns1.closequartercuties.co.uk and ns2.closequartercuties.co.uk and set them as the nameservers. After this, the control panel on their site told me that I could no longer change any records for CNAMES, A, NS etc and that these were meant to be managed by the nameserver host.

So what I was wondering was whether I need to set something else up on our VPS in order to manage these records, or if I'm just supposed to leave them as they were. Or if I even have to set up these nameservers in the first place and just give the default ones more time.

[Vanderburg]

If you're running a basic Apache webserver on a VDS, you don't need to create your own nameservers. You can use multiple A records to point to the same address with different subdomains and in Apache, you can create virtual hosts that will present different websites for each.

You certainly CAN create nameservers and run bind9 on the VDS, but this is fairly complicated and not really necessary.