Do you support wildcard DNS?

Yes. Ruachost hosting supports wildcard DNS and wildcard subdomains.

A wildcard record, written as *.example.com, matches any subdomain that you haven’t set up separately. For example, blog.example.com, shop.example.com and anything.example.com all go to the same place.

Create a wildcard subdomain in cPanel

1. Log in to cPanel.
2. Open Domains in the Domains section.
3. Click Create A New Domain.
4. In the Domain box, type *.example.com (using your own domain).
5. Check the Document Root folder. cPanel fills it in, and you can change it if you want the wildcard to show a particular site.
6. Click Submit.

cPanel creates the wildcard DNS record for you. Subdomains you create separately still work as normal and take priority over the wildcard.

Note

If your domain uses nameservers from another provider, add an A record for * at that provider too.

Common uses

• Catching mistyped subdomains and sending visitors to your main site.
• Giving each user or customer their own address, such as username.example.com.
• WordPress Multisite with subdomains.

Related articles

• What are wildcard subdomains?
• Managing subdomains in cPanel
• Using the DNS Zone Editor in cPanel