Connect your own domain to your APEX applications

Use your own domain or subdomain for your APEX applications. Add it in the Domains tab, point its DNS to us, and it connects with a free SSL certificate.

What you get

Instead of the address we give you when your service is set up, your users can reach your applications at your own domain, for example app.example.com or example.com. Every domain you connect gets a free SSL certificate, set up and renewed automatically.

The number of domains you can connect depends on your plan. The Domains tab shows how many you are using, for example 2 of 4 used.

Add a domain

1. Sign in to the client area, open Services and select your APEX service.
2. Open the Domains tab.
3. Under Add a domain, enter the domain or subdomain, for example app.example.com, and click Add domain.

If the domain already points to your service, it connects straight away. Otherwise it is listed as Waiting for DNS, and the card Point your domain here shows the DNS records to add.

Point the domain to your service

Add the records shown in Point your domain here wherever your domain's DNS is managed — usually your registrar or DNS provider. Your existing email and other records stay as they are.

Before you save:

• Delete any other A or AAAA records for the same name, so all visitors reach your service.
• Using Cloudflare? Set the record to DNS only (grey cloud), otherwise the certificate cannot be issued.
• Domain registered with us? You can add the records yourself — see Manage DNS records for your domain.

Tip: A CNAME keeps working even if our server address changes, so prefer it wherever you can.

Connecting and SSL

We check waiting domains every hour and connect them as soon as their DNS is ready — or click Check DNS to check now. When a domain is connected:

• its status changes to Connected;
• the SSL column shows Active once the certificate is in place (usually within minutes);
• Open takes you to the domain, and Change lets you choose what it opens — see Choose what your domain opens.

Addresses on your domain

Once connected, your domain works with all the usual APEX addresses:

Note: An application installed as an app (PWA) belongs to the domain it was installed from. After moving to a new domain, install it again from the new address.

Remove a domain

Click Remove next to the domain and confirm. Visitors to that domain no longer reach your service. The address that came with your service is marked Main and cannot be removed.

Troubleshooting