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Hostinger Domain & Hosting Setup Guide

Hostinger provides tutorials and knowledge base resources for managing your domain, DNS, and hosting plans. This content focuses on adding a domain, configuring nameservers, and linking your domain to hosting plans to get a website online. It covers basic DNS management, domain management, and the steps to attach your domain to a hosting plan within the Hostinger account.

How to Use Hostinger for Domains and Hosting

1. Buy or prepare your domain. If you already own a domain, you can manage it in Hostinger by pointing it to Hostinger’s name servers. If you need a new domain, you can purchase one through Hostinger.
2. Access your Hostinger account. Log in to your Hostinger dashboard to access domain management, DNS settings, and hosting plans.
3. Add your domain to a hosting plan. In your hosting dashboard, follow the steps to add an existing domain to your hosting plan (e.g., add website to hosting). This links your domain to your hosting space so your site can be served from Hostinger.
4. Manage domain nameservers. If you’re using external DNS or need to switch to Hostinger’s DNS, update the domain nameservers in the domain management area to point to Hostinger (or set them to your preferred DNS provider). This step ensures proper routing of traffic to your hosting environment.
5. Configure DNS records as needed. Depending on your setup, you may need to add or modify DNS records (A, CNAME, MX, etc.) to ensure your domain resolves to your Hostinger-hosted site and related services (email, etc.).
6. Test and verify. After updating DNS and linking the domain to hosting, wait for DNS propagation if you’ve changed name servers. Verify that your website loads correctly and that related services function as expected.

Key Concepts

• Domain management: central area to view and configure your domain’s settings within Hostinger.
• DNS management: control DNS records to route traffic to hosting, email, and other services.
• Hosting plans: the server resources and features you use to host your website; you can attach a domain to a hosting plan.
• Name servers: the servers that respond to queries about your domain; changing them directs traffic to a specific hosting provider.

Safety and Best Practices

• Ensure you own the domain or have authorization to manage it.
• Be mindful of DNS propagation time after making changes (up to 24-48 hours in some cases).
• Keep DNS records organized and only modify necessary records to avoid downtime.

Core Features

• Domain management within Hostinger
• Change and manage domain nameservers
• Add existing domain to a hosting plan / link domain to hosting
• DNS management (A, CNAME, MX, etc.) for domain records
• Clear guidance for attaching domain to hosting and verifying setup