Migrating Your Website to Distil Using Rackspace DNS:
Rackspace provides an easy to use and understand DNS system. Migrating your Rackspace domain is a simple process that involves two steps:
- Change your CNAME record for www.website.com to point to a CNAME provided by Distil
- Change your A Record entry for website.com to point to an IP provided by Distil
Editing your www CNAME to point to Distil's Network
- log in to the Rackspace Cloud Server Control Panel
- Navigate to your Cloud Server overview page, by selecting Hosting
- Click Cloud Servers.
- Click on the link for your Cloud Server.
- Click on the DNS tab at the top. This is where you will modify your DNS records.
- Click on the domain in the Domain Management screen.
- Click on the Add button to add our first record — a new window should appear.
- In the Name field enter www
- In the Content field enter www.yourwebsite.com.distil.us
- Rackspace recommends you set the TTL to 60 seconds.
- Set the Type to CNAME.
- Click OK
Editing your root domain yourwebsite.com A Record to point to Distil's Network
- log into the Rackspace Cloud Server Control Panel
- Navigate to your Cloud Server overview page, by selecting Hosting
- Click Cloud Servers.
- Click on the link for your Cloud Server.
- Click on the DNS tab at the top. This is where you will modify your DNS records.
- Click on the domain in the Domain Management screen.
- Click on the Add button to add our first record — a new window should appear.
- In the Name field be sure your base domain is entered
- In the Content field enter the IP address given to you by Distil in either the Add Domain wizard in the portal or in your deployment email
- Rackspace recommends you set the TTL to 60 seconds.
- Set the Type to A.
- Press the OK button to save your record.
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