Now that you've got all your content ready, your website address purchased, and your email set up, it's time to launch your new site. You are now ready for the world to see your website!
There are only a few steps that you need to do to make your website live. Below are your instructions to making your website live with Network Solutions.
First Things First:
The first step is to find your new site's "IP Address". It's located in your Greenhouse Dashboard under Settings > Search Engine Settings. You'll see it on the right side under "Your I.P. Address". Copy this number and save it for the next steps.
Changing Your "A" Record
If you registered your domain name through networksolutions.com, here are the steps you will take to make your website live:
1. Go to networksolutions.com and log in with your username and password (click the "manage account" button in the upper right corner of the page).
2. Step 2. After signing into your account, you will be directed to a navigation page. Find the drop down box underneath the header "My Domain Names". Select the domain name you want to edit, then click "Go".
3. You will be directed to a page that is your Domain Manager. In the middle of the page, next to "Domain Currently Points To:", click "Edit".
If it says "Designated DNS" next to "Domain Currently Points To:", then you will need to change your name server addresses. You can do this right from this page. HOWEVER, this will also change all the other settings for your domain, which means that your email (MX) records will need to be set up again. You may want to stop and read our help article about name servers.
4. Next you will be directed to a page that gives options about your DNS. Under "Advanced DNS", click "Manage Advanced DNS Records".
5. Now you'll be on a page of DNS records. In the first table, under Under "IP Address (A Records)" click "Add/Edit".
6. On this page, you will change the "Numeric IP" for "www", "@(None)", and "*(All Others)". For all three fields, enter your site's IP address (the one that you wrote down from the beginning of this help article). Click "OK".
7. You're done! Your site should be live within a couple hours. Go celebrate!
