Custom Domain Name Activation

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Hi, @DamilolaA, both the www subdomain and the custom domain damilola.tech point to our our load balancer IP address of 104.198.14.52.

While this works, it is not our recommended configuration and this current configuration will affect the site performance. (All the traffic points to a single load balancer and not our complete CDN/ADN.

Also, I can see from the screenshot that Netlify DNS is enabled for damilola.tech at Netlify but this configuration is not active or being used at this time.

Here is my recommended solution:

  1. Delete the Netlify DNS configuration for damilola.tech here.
  2. Following the external DNS instructions, create the following two CNAME DNS records:
www.damilola.tech.		        3600	IN	CNAME	damilola.netlify.com.
www.damilolaajiboye.com.		3600	IN	CNAME	damilola.netlify.com.
  1. Create an A record for the apex/root domain point that to our load balancer IP address and do not make it the primary domain (don’t worry - it isn’t the primary domain already so just don’t change that):
damilola.tech.		3600	IN	A	104.198.14.52

Note, those records are created where the domains are registered, not at Netlify. (If you want to use Netlify DNS there are different instructions for that.)

Once those settings have taken effect (taking into account the time to live values of the previous records), all three domains will point to this Netlify site and the automatic Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate can be provisioned once that is working.

If this doesn’t work and/or if there are any questions, please let us know.