How to attach your Website hosted on ethoFS to your own Domain
Getting a Domain
The domain name is gonna be like 1-15 dollars a year.
In this Example used is etho-nodes.cloud from here: https://www.dynadot.com/ Cost under $5.

Step 1:
Once you got yours go on where you registered the website and setup the DNS by editing “change name servers”,in this case its https://www.dynadot.com
Click on My Domains then select Manage Domains.

Step 2:
Select your Domain.

Now you will be presented with DNS Settings.
Click on the arrow on the right to open the DNS Settings.

Step 3:
Here you will add the Free DNS Service,click on Add Server to add 2 more,so you have 4.
Add these 4 below & click on Save Name Server.
freedns1.registrar-servers.com
freedns2.registrar-servers.com
freedns3.registrar-servers.com
freedns4.registrar-servers.com
Once done it should look like this.

Namecheap DNS setup
Step 1:
Go to https://www.namecheap.com/domains/freedns/

Type your domain name and complete the checkout process!
Make sure you registered there & have an Account.
Step 2:
Login to your Account
Click on Dashboard

Step 3:
Click on the Manage option under the House icon.

Step 4:
Next we need to go to the Advanced DNS tab,so go ahead & select it.

Step 5:
In Advanced DNS menu you need to ADD NEW RECORD.

Add these 2:
CNAME Record
TXT Record
Add CNAME Record & fill the Host,Value & TTL.
Under Host add www
Under Value add dns.ethofs.com.
Under TTL select 5 min

Next add TXT Record & fill the Host,Value & TTL.
Under Host add _dnslink.www
Under Value add dnslink=/ipfs/YOUR_CONTENT_HASH_HERE
Under TTL select 5 min

Once you are done it should look like this:

Save all changes.
Visit your website! Please Note: Your website might not be available immediately as it can take a bit of time for DNS changes to propagate over the internet.
Congratulations! You just setup your decentralized website on ethoFS attached to your domain!
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