{"id":1960,"date":"2021-06-01T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T08:08:05","slug":"add-my-own-hostnames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/add-my-own-hostnames\/","title":{"rendered":"Add my own hostnames"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/span> domain’s nameservers<\/b><\/a> tell your browser where it needs to go when you enter a URL into the address bar. They are an integral part of the <\/span>Domain Name System<\/b>, and without them, the <\/span>World Wide Web <\/b>would be a very different place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, they remain largely unnoticed. You can see a domain’s nameservers either in a Whois database or through the <\/span>nslookup<\/span><\/i> command. However, it’s fair to say that very few end users actually bother to check them out. When it comes to <\/span>website owners and hosting resellers<\/b>, however, things are a little bit different.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a reseller, <\/span>your business plan involves setting up your own hosting company <\/b>and establishing a brand that people recognize.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you resell<\/span> ScalaHosting services <\/b>to individual site owners, you don’t want your clients to know where the services are coming from. Instead, you want to <\/span>assure them that they are doing business with you.<\/b><\/p>\n

That’s why all our reseller plans<\/span> let you create private nameservers <\/b>and tell your clients to point their domains to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They look something like this:<\/b><\/p>\n