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New Pleskian
Hello, new plesk user here. Over the last several years I've been using Linodes and their DNS, no hosting control panel like plesk or cpanel, just did everything in terminal. I'm not a business webhoster, just a guy with a couple linodes doing some django stuff and hosting a couple web sites for personal and family. I've essentially just used Linodes DNS and had a few records to point to my linode along with one MX for password resets and such.
Figured I'd give plesk a go and see if it would make things a little easier for maintaining what sites I do have. Bought the Admin panel as I'm not selling hosting anyway. But, when I created my first couple of domains in plesk, 19 records were created for each. Are all these records really needed? I don't care about search engine rankings or anything like that as I'm not in the business of selling anything, I really could care less about running my own DNS, because quite frankly, DNS gives me a headache. I watched the tutorial on udemy for installing plesk on linode, but when it mentioned making linode as my dns and that was all I had to do, it kinda left me not sure about adding any more records or not, like, what about the mx for a mail.example.com and such?
CURRENTLY: My registrar is at google domains, so I already created a couple of hostnames, ns1 and ns2, both pointed to the same ip at plesk (on a linode). I might add that the site are serving up with no problem. But is this an ok set up as is and leaving linode out of it, or should I point from google to linode ? If I point to linode, do I have to add all of the records plesk created during creation of the website to the Linode DNS manager? As I mentioned before, I do not want to run my own dns, I just want to serve up a few sites for my kin.
I hope this makes sense, cause I've read and re-read what I've written and confused myself to the point I've rewritten this several time too! LOL
Anyway, help a guy out. Thanks. ;>)
Figured I'd give plesk a go and see if it would make things a little easier for maintaining what sites I do have. Bought the Admin panel as I'm not selling hosting anyway. But, when I created my first couple of domains in plesk, 19 records were created for each. Are all these records really needed? I don't care about search engine rankings or anything like that as I'm not in the business of selling anything, I really could care less about running my own DNS, because quite frankly, DNS gives me a headache. I watched the tutorial on udemy for installing plesk on linode, but when it mentioned making linode as my dns and that was all I had to do, it kinda left me not sure about adding any more records or not, like, what about the mx for a mail.example.com and such?
CURRENTLY: My registrar is at google domains, so I already created a couple of hostnames, ns1 and ns2, both pointed to the same ip at plesk (on a linode). I might add that the site are serving up with no problem. But is this an ok set up as is and leaving linode out of it, or should I point from google to linode ? If I point to linode, do I have to add all of the records plesk created during creation of the website to the Linode DNS manager? As I mentioned before, I do not want to run my own dns, I just want to serve up a few sites for my kin.
I hope this makes sense, cause I've read and re-read what I've written and confused myself to the point I've rewritten this several time too! LOL
Anyway, help a guy out. Thanks. ;>)