A basic guide to updating nameservers or pointed IP

Steps 0 thru 0.99
– attempt the registrar logins
– if 2-step auth, call the client
– once logged in, locate the dns settings
– verify whether you are going to change the Name Servers or point the
IP (the A and CNAME records) to Big West’s IP. If Name servers proceed
to 1, if pointed IP proceed to 2.

1) Name Servers.
Usually this is easy. Set them to ns1.bigwesthost2.com and ns2.bigwesthost2.com

Once in a blue moon there will be some weird registrar where they have
you specify the IP address of each name server, and they don’t let you
enter the same IP for both, in which case you may be out of luck, so
just set the A record pointed IP instead. If in doubt, check with Leah.

2) Pointed IP
A (Address) Record:
@ is the record for the base URL.

Bluehost:
– Set the name or “host record” to @
– set “points to” 163.182.168.98
– Set TTL to the minimum (4 hours)

GoDaddy:
– set “type” to A
– set “name” to @
– set “value” to 163.182.168.98
– set TTL to minimum (600 seconds)

Wix:
– set “hostname” to base url
– set “value” to 163.182.168.98
– set TTL to minimum (1 hour)

Hostgator:
– set “record type” to A
– set “host” to @
– set “value” to 163.182.168.98
– set ttl to default setting

Occasionally a site will have a subdomain, like clients.mywebsite.com.
That will need an A record as well, but instead of the name being set
to @, it will be set to the subdomain, and it will be set to point to
the same IP as the @ record. So for clients.mywebsite.com in
GoDaddy…
– set “type” to A
– set “name” to clients
– set “value” to 163.182.168.98
– set TTL to minimum (1/2 hour)

CNAME records

If they have a www record, update it to the base URL or @. And if they
don’t have a www record, create one.

Bluehost:
– Set the name or “host record” to www
– set “points to” to base url (eg – mywebsite.com)
– Set TTL to the minimum (4 hours)

GoDaddy:
– set “type” to CNAME
– set “name” to www
– set “value” to @
– set TTL to minimum (1 hour)

Wix:
– set “host name” to www. + base url
– set “value” to base url
– set TTL to minimum (1 hour)