DNS Management

First make sure you are entering the correct DNS servers for your domain. You can find your hosting account’s name servers in your User Area -> My Accounts -> Information & Settings, under the hosting account you will be pointing the domain to. Some local … Continued

Name server is a server that handles queries regarding the location of a domain name’s various services such as website, emails and so on. It is also a part of the Domain Name System (DNS) which maintains a directory of domain names and … Continued

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework. It is a TXT DNS record, which ensures mail servers will accept emails sent from your domain only if they are sent from a list of trusted servers you set up. This is important in fighting … Continued

There are two options to point your website to XonHost – you can use XonHost name servers with your domain, or you can just update the domain’s A record to point to your hosting account’s IP address. Both the IP … Continued

You can add SRV record from your cPanel by following the steps below: 1. Login to your XonHost User Area 2. Click on My Accounts section 3. Select the option Go to cPanel then Proceed 4. Click oAdvanced DNS Zone Editor in the section Domains 5. Go … Continued

‘DNS propagation’ is a term used to describe the time frame after making any changes to your domain name. Such propagation will occur after any: Changes to your domain’s WHOIS information. WHOIS is a publicly available tool that searches the … Continued

While the main purpose of the Domain Name System is to point domains to IP addresses, a PTR record works in the opposite way – it associates an IP with a domain name. Because of its purpose, a PTR record … Continued

The Private DNS are name servers that reflect your domain name rather than our default ones. The service is available to all our clients on all our hosting plans. The default nameservers for your account have the following structure: 1 … Continued

Wildcard subdomains are useful when you wish to redirect all visitors to your website regardless of what subdomain they access your website through. This is also useful when someone mistypes www for example and writes ww.yourdomain.com. In other words, with wildcard subdomains it … Continued

If you are a XonHost customer, you can manage your domain’s A records from your cPanel. To do this, please use the Simple DNS Zone Editor tool to make the necessary changes in the DNS zone for the selected domain name. If you have … Continued