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Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Peter

Peter — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:20:02 +0000

I have 2 moonfruit sites in my account and 2 domain names bought through moonfruit.

http://scotlandprayer2010.org points to the correct site that it's assigned to scotlandprayer2010.moonfruit.com. However when I type www.scotlandprayer2010.org into my browser I get directed to my other site.

Can you help? I've emailled 3000 people with the www link and it points to the wrong site!

Thanks
Peter

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - nameless

nameless — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:56:54 +0000

I made a website on moonfruit but I dont like it. Is there any way to delete it and make a new completely different one?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Joe

Joe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:22 +0000

Hi Tim,

Sorry that this is still not clear, it's actually quite a complex change if you have your domain managed elsewhere, as we don't know what the domain interface looks like that you're dealing with.

The simple answer is that if you use a .moonfruit.com address of have your domain managed with us we take care of everything for you. If you transfer a domain to us, we will update the records correctly.

But if you do have it elsewhere, then you need to create a www record in your zone file, as a CNAME to your site.moonfruit.com address. If there is an existing www A record, then delete this too. If there is a * record set to A, then simply add the www CNAME.

And if you give us specific information about your domain we can give you a specific answer to it.

I hope that helps,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Tim Flowers

Tim Flowers — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:11 +0000

I love Moonfruit but they have done a horrible job of explaining this change to everyone. They just threw out some vague instructions and left us to fend for ourselves. Not cool!

Come on, Moonfruit team...how about some real customer service?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Rose

Rose — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:07:27 +0000

Hi. I bought a domain through moonfruit.com and I am trying to access my CNAME to add my forum/ adsense.. however I cannot. Can you tell me how to access my CNAME through moonfruit.com?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - MD

MD — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:48:10 +0000

Hi. Does anyone know if we need to actually DELETE the A name record which points to 146.101.249.107 ? Or do we keep this, and then just add a C Name record (so we have both) ?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Inchmore

Inchmore — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:22:04 +0000

Hi, I badly need your help please. Since you made your changes my web page
disappeared from one of the sites that I was linked to - namely
Bedandbreakfasts.co.uk. I have been in touch with them and they have told me
"Your website is NOT google cached. I added it
<http://www.google.com/addurl/> http://www.google.com/addurl/ but whether
Google caches free sites like moonfruit I dont know

Re your link to bedandbreakfasts.co.uk it has no "www" at the start. But it
wont work yet anyway as that page is not google cached"

I (that is me) went to the Google web site and followed their instruction
and inserted a given cut and paste meta tag into my web page before the
first welcome page and then received a note from Google that they could not
verify my site.
I am really struggling with limited knowledge of the terminology and where
and what to do -- please help me as this is affecting my B & B business - I
will do what ever it takes. The meta tag that I entered was inside< > which
I think I may have included was that wrong??

Thanks for any crumb of help.

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - doanhuyphuc

doanhuyphuc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:59:37 +0000

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Mel

Mel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:48:58 +0000

Hi Joe. Great news we are moving to a faster server! thanks!
I use Crazy Domains for my domain hosting and just have a quick question. I cannot find anywhere to update these details, except there is a section called "Update name server details" which then has a primary hostname listed and a secondary.
Primary: s1.dnspackage.com IP address: 203.170.87.1
Secondary: ns2.dnspackage.com IP address: 74.50.118.47

Is this where I do it? Does Primary mean A record maybe?

Thank you
Mel

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - joe

joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:21 +0000

Hi Geofizz,

Be careful that you are changing the right setting. Forwarding can mean that they load the target site in a blank frameset on your URL rather than actually getting your domain name to correctly load the site directly. This 'masked forwarding' using the frameset is very bad for SEO as it looks like your site has no visible contents. Domain registrars like it because it is very easy to setup, but not good for their clients.

So have a quick check to make sure you haven't done this rather than change the CNAME. Thanks,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Geofizz

Geofizz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:21:29 +0000

Hi Everyone
Well it seems Go Daddy got the message. could not be easier to change forwarding
Went to my domain manager checked domain box, clicked fowarding and re typed my moonfruit name and addres in pannel that poped up, simple

Only one slight concern so far on the preview button My site came up?? Sounds good but site as shown was four years old and not now in existance so thats a slight worry but will check links out in 24 hours.

Good news is a can now use the 20.000- leaflets i have ?

Best Regards
Geofizz

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Sophie

Sophie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:26:58 +0000

Joe, thanks very much. I am afraid at 1&1 if I fill in a Cname/alias I HAVE to tick the box that disables MX records etc. So I have little choice. I'll stick to the 'old system'.
I'll ask my American visitors (half of all my visitors!) how slow my site is and if it needs improvement. Haven't had any complaints so far!
Thanks for answering all our questions on this...

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - joe

joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:10:14 +0000

Hi Rose,

If you keep the A record for the root of your domain (sometimes referred to as @, though nothing to do with mail), then the domain.com by itself will still work. Sorry if this was not clear. It was only the A record for www that you would need to delete. If they has setup the A record as * (all subdomains), then you can leave it in place as the CNAME www would override the * for the www and leave all other subdomains using the A record.

I hope that helps,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - joe

joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:07:41 +0000

Hi John,

The current setup doesn't stop you getting visitors from all over the world, just makes the site load faster for them. But if they're happy now, that's fine too ;-)

If you transfer your domain over to us we will setup all these settings automatically so there will be no issues. I hope that helps,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - joe

joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:05:17 +0000

@Sophie - there should be separate records for websites (A or CNAME) and for mail (MX records), so changing one shouldn't affect the other. So you'll need to be careful in the 1&1 interface not to change the MX records. I'd be surprised if they don't allow you to change just the web records.

In terms of speed, your site will remain exactly the the same as now if you don't make any changes, which is not slow anyway. So if you don't make the changes it won't make things worse. The main beneficiaries if you make the changes will be users outside Europe, particularly the US where there should be a significant speed improvement.

I hope that helps,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - joe

joe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:59:03 +0000

@Mariem555 sounds like you've done it right. I've checked you site URL and it is now correctly loading via the distributed servers.

However, like rose it looks like the root URL, e.g. domain.com, vs www.domain.com, is not resolving. For the domain.com you'll need to add back an A record either with the value * or @ going to the IP address 146.101.249.107. (* is all records, @ is just the root, but the * won't override the www).

Apologies for any confusion in this, but it all depends on how things are setup at the registrar originally. I hope that helps,

Joe

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - rose

rose — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:31:44 +0000

Me again :)

Right now - if you put in the domain name without the "www" in a browser - it doesn't come up.... only if I use the full www.domain.com does it work.

Is this part of what's expected to happen with the change? If so, it may not be worth it...

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - john

john — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:22:09 +0000

Google Analytics shows i have visitors from all over the globe as things are.
As the above stuff is incomprehensible is there any reason why I should ever risk trying to change from A to C?
My domain is with FreeParking. It has been asked already if I transfer my registration to Moonfruit when renewal comes round will that sort it?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - sophie

sophie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:22:02 +0000

OK, I found the old settings so put it all back. I obviously cannot change to a Cname alias without also losing functionality of email etc. So the old system will have to stay. If my website gets too slow for users, what do I do then?

Moonfruit goes global - your site served from 14 locations around the world - Sophie

Sophie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:11:57 +0000

Help!
I did it all ( I think correctly: just put www.sophieploeg.moonfruit.com in the cname alias and my site is still up and running fine. BUT I am not receiving any emails anymore!! (I am with 1&1) and I don't know the old DNS settings anymore. Are they still available somewhere?
boohoo!