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In today's tutorial, we're going to cover how you can add, edit, and delete your site's
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DNS records within your EZOIC dashboard. Before we jump into how to do this, I want to talk about why these DNS records are important
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The most common way of integrating with EZOIC is via our CDN integration, which is where
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you connect either via name servers or via Cloudflare to EZOIC. In this diagram, you can see what it looks like without having EZOIC integrated in the
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top diagram. Your users request your website, and the request goes straight through to your origin server
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and then back to your users with the content. With EZOIC, we act like a proxy, so this means that we sit in between your site's content
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and the users. So when the users request your site, it comes through EZOIC, and then we call back to your
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origin server to get the content and serve the optimized page to your users
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The reason the DNS records are important is because it acts as a map for EZOIC to know
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where to find the content. To manage your site's DNS records within your EZOIC dashboard, you want to navigate to the
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settings area, and then scroll down to the DNS settings. Whenever a site is added to EZOIC's platform, we automatically import all of the existing
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DNS records, such as A records, MS records, CNAME records, and TXT records
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However, if you need to update some of them, for instance, if you're changing hosts and
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have a new IP address, you'll want to do it here. These records are automatically imported for your site, and if you need to add or edit
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any of them, you can do so here. To add a DNS record, click this button, and then specify which type of DNS record it is
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from the dropdown. Add the name, and if the name happens to be the root domain, make sure you just add an
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at sign, like that, and then the value of where that should point to
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The TTL is also known as the time to live, and if you aren't sure what it should be
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we recommend setting it to five minutes. Then go ahead and click add DNS record, and this will automatically update here in your settings
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If you need to edit a record, you can use this edit icon to adjust any of the existing
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values that we have. One thing to note, and that's really important, is that these records tell our system where
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to find your site. If there is an issue with any of them or any of them are incorrect, such as the IP address
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that can cause your site to go down, so we recommend checking with your host, looking
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in your zone file, and making sure that you have the correct DNS records here in your
