Custom domains

Bring your own domain

Point a domain at any app or environment. Add one DNS record at your registrar; the SSL certificate, its renewals, and the routing are handled for you.

console.light-cloud.com/website/demo/domain
examples/website / demoJ
demoDeployed
Domain
  1. Add
  2. DNS
  3. Certificate
  4. Live
www.acme.com
CNAMEwww→light-cloud.io
Certificate issued · auto-renewed
www.acme.com is live
www.acme.com→demo
main-demo-examples.light-cloud.io→demo

Add shop.acme.com to production, create the one record, and watch it go from DNS check to a live HTTPS address.

How it works

From hostname to HTTPS, in four steps.

You add the domain and one DNS record. Light Cloud verifies the record, issues the certificate, and routes traffic to the environment you chose.

  1. 1

    Add your domain

    Enter the domain you want to use for an app or a specific environment.

    shop.acme.com → production

  2. 2

    Point the DNS

    Add the record Light Cloud gives you at your registrar. That is the only manual step.

    CNAME shop → ghs.light-cloud.io

  3. 3

    Certificate is issued

    An SSL certificate is provisioned for the domain automatically, and renewed for you after that.

    TLS · issued automatically

  4. 4

    Live over HTTPS

    Traffic to your domain reaches the right environment, encrypted end to end.

    https://shop.acme.com

ONE DNS RECORD · THEN HTTPShttps://www.acme.comHANDLED BY LIGHT CLOUDRegistrarCNAME www → …the one manual stepLight CloudTLS · auto-renewedcertificate readyproductionmain-demo-examples.light-cloud.ioDeployeddnshttps

Routing

Per app or per environment.

A domain points at exactly one place. Put the apex on production, give staging its own hostname, or hand a separate app its own subdomain. Each gets its own certificate.

  • acme.comproduction · environmentLive
  • staging.acme.comstaging · environmentLive
  • docs.acme.comdocs · appLive

Included

What you get with every domain.

Automatic SSL

Certificates are issued for you as soon as the DNS record resolves. There is nothing to install.

DNS handled

Light Cloud manages the mapping from your hostname to the running service.

Per app or per environment

Attach a domain to production, or give a staging environment its own hostname.

Renewed for you

Certificates are renewed automatically before they expire. Nothing to rotate, no expiry reminders.

One manual step

The DNS record at your registrar is the only thing you do by hand. Everything after it is automatic.

Encrypted end to end

Traffic to your domain is served over HTTPS all the way to the environment it points at.

Put your app on your domain

Deploy, add a domain, and go live over HTTPS. Start free; your own domain comes with Lite at $5 a month.