This article is simplified for beginners. For complete information on how DNS works, see the category DNS.
What do you want to do with DNS?
Pointing to a VEDOS service
This guide assumes that you have a domain and an existing VEDOS hosting service, and that the domain uses WEDOS DNS (the default setting for a domain registered with VEDOS).
Log in to the Customer Administration and visit the domain pointing link ⧉.
Select the domain you want to point to the hosting from the list.
Tick the hosting service you want to point the domain to (Webhosting, Hosting WP, Mailhosting, …).
Choose whether you want to prevent changes to MX records (emails).
Click the Set Up.
Done! 🎉
Wait a few minutes for the changes to take effect.
If the changes to your website do not appear, try refreshing the page without the browser cache using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R.
Another provider’s records
This guide assumes that the domain uses WEDOS DNS (the default setting for a domain registered with WEDOS).
Log in to the Customer Administration and visit the domain record editing link ⧉.
Select the domain you want to set records for from the list.
In the table of DNS records, tick all records with the same name and type that the provider asks you to set.
If the service provider asks you to set A records and your domain has both A and AAAA records, delete both types.
Click the Smazat vybrané záznamy.
For each record of the other provider, click the New Recordbutton, fill in the form and click the Save Record.
Follow these rules:
- Enter the record name without the domain name itself (the Name může být prázdné).
- Delete the
@character from the record name. - From a subdomain name in the form, for example,
www.domain.tlddelete the domain name and keep only the subdomain (e.g.www).
- Delete the
- Leave the TTL field empty.
- Enter the type and data exactly as instructed by the provider.
- Enter the data of MX records in the form
X domain.tld, whereXis the number that the provider specifies as the priority, anddomain.tldis the address of the mail server.
- Enter the data of MX records in the form
Done! 🎉
Changes usually take effect within 30 minutes.