How to point Namecheap DNS records to Pressable

If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your Namecheap DNS records accordingly, please choose one of the options below to do this:

Domain Setup Wizard

Pointing Namecheap Nameservers to Pressable

Log into your Namecheap account and press the “Manage” button to the right of the domain.

Under the “Domain” tab, find the section on nameservers and select “Custom DNS”.
Enter the Pressable nameservers:ns1.openhostingservice.com ns2.openhostingservice.com ns3.openhostingservice.com ns4.openhostingservice.com ns5.openhostingservice.com

Read Namecheap’s article on how to update nameservers here:
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/767/10/how-can-i-change-the-nameservers-for-my-domain3

Note: that if you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.

Pointing Namecheap A Records to Pressable

Log into your Namecheap account and press the “Manage” button to the right of the domain.

Navigate to the Advanced DNS tab.

You will want to make sure that you have two A Records for @, each pointing to one of the Pressable IP addresses. Then you will need a CNAME Record created for www, that is pointing to your domain name.

When finished your records will look similar to the following:

Read Namecheap’s article on how to update A records here:
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/319/2237/how-can-i-set-up-an-a-address-record-for-my-domain/

(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate

This step will only apply if you added your domain on the Pressable control panel (Step two) a considerable amount of time before pointing the domain via DNS (Step one). If this is the case, you may find that your site doesn’t have an SSL certificate and you will need to re-provision one. You can do that from the Domains tab on your control panel.

Click the reset icon to the right of your domain. If you already have a valid SSL certificate you may see an error message, but if your site does not yet have a valid certificate this should generate one. You only need to click the icon once, we will include all secondary domains attached to the site in the certificate.

If you are still having trouble with SSL not working as expected please contact our support team for further assistance.

Yoast Indexables

If Yoast (Yoast SEO or Yoast SEO Premium plugins) is used on a website and a domain is added or changed (new site, cloned site, etc) without taking steps afterward, it can result in the staging domain or previous domain showing in search results. Please follow the information here to ensure the proper domain is reflected within search results.