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title: "How to Connect Your VPS to Your Domain Name"
description: "One of the most common ways to utilize a VPS is hosting a website. To do so, you'll first need to register a domain name at a registrar (e.g. GoDaddy, NameCheap"
url: https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal-cloud/vps/connect-domain-name
lang: en
---
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# How to Connect Your VPS to Your Domain Name

One of the most common ways to utilize a VPS is hosting a website. To do so, you'll first need to register a domain name at a registrar (e.g. GoDaddy, NameCheap, etc.). Once you have your domain name and your VPS, you are ready to begin.

### **Prerequisites**

- A Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

### **Topics**

- [Learning About A Records](#learn)
- [Pointing an A Record to a VPS](#point)
- [Checking for Propagation](#check)

**Warning:**

**Note:** These steps will also work for any Dedicated Server, VM networked with an additional IP, or Public Cloud instance.

### **Learning About A Records**

An A Record is a type of DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv4 address. This makes it so that a difficult-to-remember IPv4 address (e.g. 203.0.113.1) translates to an easy-to-read, highly marketable domain name (e.g. example.com). You can point multiple A records to the same domain utilizing a different IPv4 address for redundancy or point multiple A records with different domain names to the same IPv4 address.

An A record consists of the following fields

- **Name:** Subdomain - usually appended with an @
- **TTL**\*\*:\*\*  Time-to-live, the amount of time (in seconds) that the record is cached
- **Value/Address:  **Target IPv4 address of the A record

Now that we have a basic understanding of A records, let's take a look at how to point one to our VPS.

### **Pointing an A Record to a VPS**

To start, log into your registrar's DNS Management section. Locate your A record and point it to the IP of your VPS.

Note: If you have previously pointed the A record to a different host, the propagation time could be subject to the old TTL.

Now let's check to make sure the website is resolving properly.

### **Checking for Propagation**

To check that your website is attached to your VPS, you can do a dig command on your domain name.

```
dig example.com 
```

You should see the IP address of your VPS in the Answer section of the output

```
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com.	600	IN	A	203.0.113.1
```

If you don't see the result of your IP address you may have not waited long enough for the TTL. Wait the allotted time set on the TTL and try again.

### **Conclusion**

Having read this article, you should have everything you need to resolve your domain name to your VPS.