Not all Hosting servers and admin panels for domain names management are very user-friendly. I always forget where the “dns servers setting” bit is in smarty host. [updated Feb 2016]
So when you want to point you domain name that your bought with smartyhost to a US hosting account , what do you do ?
You will need to point your smarty host domain in the admin panel to point to dream host (my hosting server ) or then bluehost where I also have blogs hosted . So here is some useful info below.
Dreamhost DNS Servers Address
ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com
ns3.dreamhost.com
You can use this Dns settings above for your new domain that you bought at smarty host (australian domain name provider) to point to your US hosting serving provider ( Dreamhost ) where you are hosting your wordpress blog or website
IN Smarty host Admin panel – You have to go to domain tools, choose the domain and insert the above dreamhost servers address in those fields as the below pic illustrates and remove the old dns servers already there
If you are using bluehost then you will input the Bluehost servers addresses over there ( new name server) which are
ns1.bluehost.com – 74.220.195.31
ns2.bluehost.com – 69.89.16.4
Go here to get the instructions in detail from smarty host
If you are pointing it to Dreamhost use the above dreamhost name servers instead
Alternatively You Could also get a Domain name and Hosting both with dreamhost or bluehost and dont have to go with the domain pointing problems as such
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Some more useful links to help you:
- http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-38160.html
- http://smartyhost-support.custhelp.com changing-dns-records-in-toolkit
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