My hosting company is “1&1″ and while I’ve no complaints about their services, I just don’t need all the services they offer. So I’ve recently been looking at migrating to free services from Google and Zoho. I won’t go into the details of the services they offer, this is just a reminder to me how to configure the CNAMEs to move across my services and it may be use to others…
As part of the verification process you can choose to use CNAMEs, which I did, but it wasn’t too clear how to set this up with OneAndOne. It turns out this worked:
1. Login into your 1&1 Control Panel and go to Domains
2. Create a new subdomain with the verification code you received from Google or Zoho (or other?)
3. When you’ve created your subdomain, select and ‘DNS’ – ‘Edit DNS setting’
4. Select CNAME under ‘General Settings’ and type in the name of your host, for Zoho it was zrs.zoho.com and for Google it was google.com
This will be different setting subdomains after your verified you own your site, but this is the first step…
Quick Update…
Also got Amazon S3 working with CNAMEs with my root i.e. www. In this case I didn’t create a subdomain, I used the domain and set the Alias to www.example.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com (no that’s not my my actual domain).
I still haven’t figured out how to automatically read my index.html file but I’m working on that
