Hosting Spaces on a custom domain

archbee's spaces can be made public and hosted on your domain with auto renewable ssl certificates and guaranteed uptime as part of our sla we host your content on your domain through azure and cloudflare cdn to be fast and reliable to publish your documentation portal to a custom domain (e g , docs yourdomain com ), you first need to set it up how to add a custom domain you need to set up your domain to enable the publish mode and get the preview and production environments adding a custom domain isn't as complex as it seems, and here's what you need to do select the space you want to publish to a domain click on the gear icon to open the space settings navigate to the custom domain tab next, you have to follow the steps mentioned there to add a cname for the desired subdomain, you need access to the domain registrant this is typically where you purchased your domain name (like godaddy, enom, or name com) if you have access to add a cname, follow these steps, but also use the domain registrant knowledge base we linked to some of the provider's documentation to help you out sign in to your domain's account at your domain host locate the page for updating your domain's dns settings the page might be called something like dns management, name server management, or advanced settings create or change the cname for the subdomain you have chosen and configured in archbee (might have been something like docs yourcompany com ) set the value for it to proxy archbee com save your changes and wait until they take effect an ssl certificate will be generated for your subdomain and deployed to our edge infrastructure to all your users while you're here, please check that your caa record does not prevent google trust llc (pki goog) to generate ssl certificates for your domain lastly, check if the dns has propagated cname record changes can take up to 72 hours to go into effect , but typically they happen much sooner next, you must set the space public, add your subdomain in step 4, then click set when a new domain is configured, an automated publish will be triggered , and publish mode is activated, and now you can publish to production how to find your domain host you can search for your domain host online if you can't find your billing records the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (icann) is a non profit organization that collects domain information use the icann lookup tool to find your domain host go to lookup icann org in the search field, enter your domain name and click lookup on the results page, scroll down to registrar information the registrar is usually your domain host how to add a cname if you don't know how to add the cname, use this template to email your technical people for help adding your unique cname record to your dns records please enter your unique label/host and destination/target text into the email before sending it to your domain host's support team or somebody from your team hello, would you please help me add a cname record to my domain's dns records? my domain is e g , archbee io (replace it with your domain) my cname record (destination/target) is e g , demo archbee io (replace it with the subdomain where you want to space to be hosted) my cname record (host/label) points to proxy archbee com (don't change this one) please get in touch with me at {your email address} thanks, {your name} how to add a cname with popular providers https //docs gandi net/en/domain names/common operations/link domain to website html