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Automating DNS With Zone Delegation and the Storm API
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Although the term DNS zone delegation may seem new to you, you have been using zone delegation without even realizing it. When you tell your domain’s registrar what nameservers you are using for a particular domain, you are delegating the zone for that domain.

Single zone delegation will work for most people. In fact, most use a single zone file to reference multiple hosts, or multiple subdomains residing on a single host. However, there are cases where where it may be beneficial to perform additional delegation.

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How To: Set Up Nameservers in cPanel
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So you have decided to host your own DNS. What is the best way to go about setting this up?
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DNS Propagation and Caching
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Any time you move a domain to a different IP address, you will run into at least some DNS propagation. While it cannot be avoided entirely, its effects can be minimized.

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Change a Domain Name in cPanel/WHM
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Changing an existing domain name and the associated account on your server is a task that most users don’t think about until it becomes necessary. Thankfully the tools provided by cPanel make this relatively easy.

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What You Need to Know About Your Domain

Many customers tell us how overwhelming setting up their first web site feels. Between DNS, e-mail, document roots, software versions, and all the other details involved in setting up a web site there is a lot to keep track of.

This guide will help you understand the core items you need to know about your domain and server, what they do, and why they are so important.

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How to: Create a New Website in 20 Minutes

A lot of people think creating a new web site with a brand new domain name takes a lot of work and time. While this can be true in some cases, it is entirely possible to have a completely new site up and handling traffic in 20 minutes, possibly less.

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How To: Change Monitoring Settings Using Manage

Our monitoring team is on site every hour of every day keeping an eye on your server. Using manage, you can check your monitoring status as well as make changes to the server’s monitoring settings.

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cPanel How To: Change a Domain’s MX Record
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This guide will walk you through the process of changing a domain’s Mail Exchange (MX) record(s) to point e-mail at a different server. MX records are a critically important part of a web site’s DNS because they tell the rest of the internet where to send e-mail for a domain.

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New User Tutorial: What is DNS?

To the inexperienced user the Domain Name System (DNS) can seem very intricate and complicated. While it can in some cases be complex, DNS problems can be easily diagnosed once you understand the basic core ideas behind it.

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Setting Up Private Nameservers in WHM/cPanel
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Setting up your own private nameservers on a cPanel server has many benefits, most importantly enabling all of cPanel’s built in DNS tools which can make DNS changes much easier.

This guide will show you how to set up and register new private nameservers on a cPanel server using the WHM (Web Host Manager) interface.

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