Your Servgrow website already works at its servgrowpro.com address. Pointing your own domain at it makes your real business address, like yourcompany.com, open your new site, while your email keeps working exactly as it does today. At Amazon Route 53 it takes about 10 minutes.
New to this? Start with Use Your Own Domain for Your Servgrow Website: it explains what changes, what stays the same, and what we do on our side.
Before you start
You need your Amazon Route 53 login.
Do not change your nameservers. You only add or edit two records. Changing nameservers can switch off your email.
Leave your MX and TXT records alone. Those run your email.
These steps work when your domain uses Amazon Route 53's own nameservers (they contain awsdns). If your records are managed somewhere else, follow the article for that company instead.
Step 1: Open your DNS records
Open the Route 53 console and choose Hosted zones.
Choose your domain's hosted zone.
Choose Create record, or select an existing record and edit it.
Step 2: Clear the old records
Your domain can only point to one website at a time, so remove whatever points it somewhere else first:
Route 53 allows one record per name and type. Edit the existing A record on the bare domain so it holds exactly one value, and delete any AAAA record and any CNAME on www.
Step 3: Add the two Servgrow records
Type | Record name | Value | TTL |
A | (leave empty) | 76.76.21.21 | Default |
A | www | 76.76.21.21 | Default |
Enter exactly these values. Both records point to the same address. Leave TTL at its default.
Use Simple routing and leave the Alias switch off.
Leave Record name empty for the bare domain. Do not type @.
Step 4: Tell us you are done
Message us from the chat bubble in Servgrow, or reply to the email where we sent you this article, and say your records are in. We finish the switch on our side: your site starts opening at your own domain, gets its security certificate (the padlock) automatically, and your old servgrowpro.com address forwards to it so no link ever breaks.
Most changes show up within an hour. Some take up to 48 hours to reach every network, so if your domain still shows the old site right away, give it a little time.
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