To serve a website from your VPS under your own domain, you only need one or two DNS records. You manage these at your domain registrar (or wherever your DNS is hosted) — not in your FormoHost account.
1. Find your server IP
Your VPS IPv4 address is in the welcome email. If your plan includes IPv6, that address is there too.
2. Add an A record
In your registrar’s DNS panel, create:
Type: A Host: @ Value: YOUR_SERVER_IPv4 TTL: default
The @ means the bare domain (example.com). To cover www as well, add either another A record for www with the same IP, or a CNAME from www to your domain.
3. Optional: AAAA record for IPv6
Type: AAAA Host: @ Value: YOUR_SERVER_IPv6
Only add this if your plan includes an IPv6 address and your web server is configured to listen on it.
4. Wait for DNS propagation
Changes usually take effect within minutes to a few hours, but can take up to 24–48 hours worldwide depending on TTL. Check progress with:
dig +short example.com
(Windows: nslookup example.com.) When it returns your server IP, you are live.
5. Reverse DNS (PTR)
If you run a mail server or want your IP to resolve back to your hostname, open a support ticket with the desired PTR value and we will set it for you.
Anything unclear? Open a ticket — we are happy to check your records with you.
