If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your SiteGround.com DNS records accordingly, we share three ways to do that:
Please Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend using the A Record Method.
Alternatively: If you’d like to manage DNS at Pressable, please get in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Domain Setup Wizard
Please Note: Pressable has a Domain Setup Wizard option, which makes connecting your SiteGround.com domain to your Pressable site a breeze! Learn more here.
Pointing SiteGround.com Nameservers to Pressable
Log into your Siteground.com account and navigate to Services → Domains.
Press the “Settings” button on the card of the domain you want to point to your Pressable site.
Next, click on the Nameservers tab. Click on the “Manage” button.
In the popup window, select “Custom” in the “Nameserver Type” select menu. You will enter the Pressable nameservers in the provided fields:
- ns1.openhostingservice.com
- ns2.openhostingservice.com
- ns3.openhostingservice.com
- ns4.openhostingservice.com
- ns5.openhostingservice.com
and then press “Confirm” as shown below –
Once the Nameservers are updated, you can manage the DNS records of the domain with us. Once added your NS should look like this:
Note: If you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the nameservers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Pointing SiteGround.com A Records to Pressable
Log into your Siteground.com account and navigate to Services → Domains.
Press the “Settings” button on the card of the domain you want to point to your Pressable site.
Select the “DNS Zone Editor” tab.
Delete any existing records for *, @, or www A records. Select the “A” tab and enter one of your Pressable IP addresses into the IPv4 Address field:
Create a second A record in the same manner, for the other Pressable IP address. Next, create two A records in the same fashion for the www versions of your domain name.
Once complete, your records should look like the following:
Alternatively, instead of creating two separate A records for the www version of the domain, you could instead point the www via a CNAME record. To do that, select the “CNAME” tab. Enter “www” into the “Name” field, And then in the “Resolves to” field, enter your domain name.
Once saved, your records should look like this:
Add Your Domain at Pressable
After you have updated the DNS settings at your registrar using one of the methods listed above, you will need to add your domain to your Pressable site. However, if you use the Domain Setup Wizard option it will automatically add the domain for you.
(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate
This step will only apply if you added your domain on the Pressable control panel (Step two) a considerable amount of time before pointing the domain via DNS (Step one). If this is the case, you may find that your site doesn’t have an SSL certificate and you will need to re-provision one. You can do that from the Domains tab on your control panel.
Click the Actions button to the right of your domain, then click Retry SSL:
If you already have a valid SSL certificate you may see an error message, but if your site does not yet have a valid certificate this should generate one. You only need to click the icon once, we will include all secondary domains attached to the site in the certificate.
If you are still having trouble with SSL not working as expected please contact our support team for further assistance.
Yoast Indexables
If Yoast (Yoast SEO or Yoast SEO Premium plugins) is used on a website and a domain is added or changed (new site, cloned site, etc) without taking steps afterward, it can result in the staging domain or previous domain showing in search results. Please follow the information here to ensure the proper domain is reflected within search results.