{"id":938,"date":"2021-07-23T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/add-an-a-entry-for-your-hostname\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:41:40","slug":"add-an-a-entry-for-your-hostname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/add-an-a-entry-for-your-hostname\/","title":{"rendered":"Add an A Entry for Your Hostname"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-9\">\n<div class=\"flex-column flex-md-row article-header\">\n<div id=\"versioned-article-header\">\n<p class=\"valid-version-info\"><em>Valid for versions 82 through the latest version<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"version-select-group\" aria-label=\"select versions\">\n<h4>Version:<\/h4>\n<h4>82<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"overview\">Overview<\/h2>\n<p>An A entry, also known as an A record or an address record, is a part of your server\u2019s DNS zone files. The A entry points a hostname or domain to an IP address, which allows other computers to find your server on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>If a DNS zone for the domain does not already exist, the system creates a new DNS zone with the full name of this entry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout callout-danger\">\n<div class=\"callout-heading\">Important:<\/div>\n<div class=\"callout-content\">\n<p>We <strong>strongly<\/strong> recommend that you create a parent DNS zone for the domain first. Then, add an A entry to the parent DNS zone for the hostname. To add the parent zone, read our Add a DNS Zone documentation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"create-an-a-entry\">Create an A entry<\/h2>\n<p>To add an A entry, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Enter your server\u2019s IP address in the available text box.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Click <em>Add Entry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your domain name now points to the server\u2019s main IP address.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valid for versions 82 through the latest version Version: 82 Overview An A entry, also known as an A record or an address record, is a part of your server\u2019s DNS zone files. The A entry points a hostname or domain to an IP address, which allows other computers to find your server on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}