Sites & domains

A site is the top-most entity you own. It can be hosted three ways.

Platform subdomain

The quickest option. We run the authoritative DNS and issue a wildcard HTTPS certificate for you, so the site is reachable over HTTPS as soon as it's created. Nothing to configure on your side.

Bring your own domain

Point an A record for your domain at the address shown in the site's DNS panel. Once it resolves, we issue an HTTPS certificate automatically. Certificates renew themselves — you don't manage them.

If you also point a www record at the same address, the certificate covers that too.

Delegated domain

Point your domain's nameservers at the two shown in the delegation wizard, and we host the whole DNS zone for you. You then edit the domain's records — A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and the rest — in the site's own DNS panel, and the site gets an HTTPS certificate covering the domain and every subdomain, renewed automatically.

Two things to know before delegating:

• If your domain is DNSSEC-signed, remove the DS record at your registrar first (or delegate a subdomain instead). The wizard checks and will stop you — delegating a signed domain would take it offline.
• Your existing records are not copied over. Recreate anything you still need — mail (MX), domain verification (TXT), and so on — in the DNS panel after delegating.

Your site's address

Whichever option you picked, the address behaves the same way:

• The site answers on its own domain — that's its canonical address, and the one to share.
• www. redirects to it. Visitors who type the www form land on the same page, at the canonical address.
• http:// redirects to https://. Your site is always served over an encrypted connection.
• Certificates are issued and renewed for you, covering both the bare domain and www. There is nothing to install or remember.

The site dashboard

Open a site to reach its own two-pane dashboard:

• Pages — a hierarchical CMS authored in a rich text editor.
• Forms — typed data-capture forms that can trigger a workflow.
• Workflows — visual automation.
• Datastore — private per-site tables you read and write with SQL.
• Analytics — first-party, cookieless traffic stats.
• Access — who can manage the site, plus the member roster.

Access and members

There are two separate ideas:

1. Management access — grant a team or user permission to manage specific features of the site (for example, edit forms but not delete them).
2. Members — the end users who belong to the site. Owners can add, invite, or approve members, and self-signup can be enabled per site.

The site owner always has full access and is always an active member.