Custom Domain on Bluehost

I am trying to connect my custom domain from Bluehost to Railway. Bluehost customer support says, there CNAME DNS record does not accept @ but just www. Since the domain name was added, Railway has not been able to detect the record. Project ID: 7dd90419-c3f0-41f1-8f52-9ec421ec1392
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Percy
Percy14mo ago
Project ID: 7dd90419-c3f0-41f1-8f52-9ec421ec1392
Floris
Floris14mo ago
im assuming you have added the CNAME record yes? and if you are just calling the normal base domain you don't have to add an @ most of the times this will be the standard route it resolves to anyways but if you say bluehost doesn't allow any @ then i would look to move your domain name into a different registrar as that means you cant make subdomains also add it without www., on Vercel it won't recognize the www. version unless you select it manually so just copy the cname, dont fill in @ and that should be all
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
Okay, please. You can do that for now.
Floris
Floris14mo ago
it can take upto 48 hours to propagate worldwide however You have to do that, it's just an advice I use NameCheap for my domain registry and im pretty content with them if you move it over to there i can help u set it up all the way through
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
The propagation doesn't take up to 5minutes on Namecheap and I have been using @ with Namecheap.
Floris
Floris14mo ago
i thought you were using BlueHost? yes usually its fast but it CAN take that long for me usually 30 min max
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
For this project, the Domain was purchased on Bluehost.
Floris
Floris14mo ago
I see, if you're familiar with NameCheap and you're limited with @ in BlueHost I would just migrate the domain
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
Okay. I will consider migrating the domain.
Floris
Floris14mo ago
yes if that's done and you need my help just @ me
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
Okay. Thank you
luna
luna14mo ago
An easier way is to just use cloudflare for the dns server. It’s free and you don’t need to move providers.
Brody
Brody14mo ago
what Luna said
lekiakiisi
lekiakiisi14mo ago
Thank you @ImLunaHey . Does Railway provide "A" DNS Record?
luna
luna14mo ago
Pretty sure they only use cname.
Brody
Brody14mo ago
@Angelo the lack of A type dns support, this is a big one
angelo
angelo14mo ago
Oh this is one that keeps coming up. Perfect, thanks again.
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