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Hi there. I want to get a personal website going.

I made a google apps account, bought a website name off of enom.com, and got a hosting account at x10hosting.com

But I realised I am totally clueless about DNS settings, host settings, A (Address), CNAME, etc. Everytime I visit my website, I end up at the google apps main page when I want it to end up at my own page.

How do I figure the basics out? Here's what I know so far:

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As described, a site that keeps landing on the Google Apps page is almost always a DNS routing issue: either the domain is pointed at Google (via records or forwarding) or the DNS zone is being served from a place you did not expect. Nameservers decide where the DNS zone lives; records inside that zone (A, CNAME, MX, TXT) decide which servers handle web, mail and other services. Finding where the zone is hosted is the single most important first step.

  1. Check which nameservers the domain currently uses (your registrar control panel or a DNS lookup tool will show this).
  2. If you want the web host to manage DNS, change the registrar nameservers to your host’s nameservers — or keep the registrar DNS and add A records that point the apex domain to your host IP.
  3. Before moving DNS, copy every important record (MX, SPF/TXT, subdomains) into the new zone to avoid breaking email or verification.
  4. For the website: create an A record for the root domain to the host IP; set www either as an A record or a CNAME that points to the site hostname (do not put a CNAME at the zone apex).
  5. Lower TTL before changes, flush local DNS and browser caches, and expect up to 48 hours for full propagation.

If the domain still shows Google after propagation, check registrar URL-forwarding and any Google Apps/site publishing settings, and confirm the hosting account is configured for that domain (files in the correct public folder and not a parked/placeholder page). As suggested, moving nameserver control to the host is a simple fix — just be careful to migrate MX/TXT records so mail and Google services keep working.

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Hi Santa,

Everytime I visit my website, I end up at the google apps main page when I want it to end up at my own page.

There's no reason to get into CNAME, A or any other details.

All you have to do is (if you havent already), contact enom.com and ask them to change your nameservers to:
NS1.X10HOSTING.COM NS2.X10HOSTING.COM

Which is your hosting company and it should do the trick.

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