Change an A Record

A website is a mere collection of beautiful files sitting on a web server. Connecting to the website to access those files requires using its unique IP address, and sadly, memorizing those numbers string for all your favorite websites could be quite challenging.

The domain name system solves this problem using DNS A records. A DNS A record points a website’s IP address to easy-to-remember words. So, instead of using long number strings to visit our website, visitors can use our domain names—www.scalahosting.com.

This article guides you on changing a domain’s A record on ScalaHosting’s SPanel. 

But first…

What’s an A Record and How Does It Work?

Every domain has an Address Record in its DNS file zone (a text file that contains all the DNS information for a domain or subdomain).

It’s an essential DNS record that helps point domain names or subdomains to their IP addresses.

When you enter www.scalahosting.com on your browser, you’ll land on the ScalaHosting homepage in a matter of seconds. But a lot of things happened behind the scenes to get you there.

If your computer didn’t save our IP address in its local DNS cache, your browser queries the internet’s name servers until it locates the server with our A Record (which contains our IP address). 

Your browser directs the request to the server with our IP address, allowing you to access our website.

You could use multiple A records for the same domain to provide redundancy to guard against outage, with the first record pointing to the default IP address.

Changing an A Record on SPanel

Follow these steps to change your domain’s A record on SPanel.

Step 1: Log into SPanel’s User Interface.

The default login URL is yourdomain.com/spanel (don’t forget to substitute yourdomain.com with your actual domain).

Change an A Record, Step 1: Log into SPanel’s User Interface.

Step 2: Open the DNS Editor

SPanel’s DNS editor is available under the Domains section on SPanel’s homepage.

Change an A Record, Step 2: Open the DNS Editor

Step 4: Find the A record you want to edit and change it.

Below the form for adding new DNS records, you’ll find a list of all the existing ones. Locate the A record you want to change and click the Edit button. 

Make your changes in the appropriate text boxes and save or use the Delete button to remove the A record from your DNS zone file.

Change an A Record, Step 4: Find the A record you want to edit and change it.

Need Support?

If you need support or want to clarify anything relating to changing a domain’s A record on SPanel, you can reach our support by chat, email, or phone.

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