Why Updating Only the A Record Will Not Make Your Wix Website Live And What You Should Do Instead

If you've recently built a website on Wix and pointed your A record to Wix's IP address (185.230.63.107), but your website is still not live, you're not alone. Many users face this exact issue.

Let’s break down why updating just the A record isn’t enough, and what you must do to make your Wix website live and fully functional.

⚠️ The Situation

You’ve made these changes in your domain DNS panel:

• Host: @

• Points to: 185.230.63.107

• TTL: 3600 or Automatic

Yet your website still doesn’t load. Why?

✅ Understanding the Role of A Records

An A record (Address Record) is a DNS setting that tells your domain where to go (which IP address to point to). At first glance, it seems logical: since Wix gave you an IP address, you simply update your A record—and expect everything to work. But there's a catch.

Wix websites don’t rely solely on the IP address. Wix uses multiple DNS records (A, CNAME, MX, TXT, etc.) for different functionalities like:

• Website routing

• SSL security

• Email routing

• CDN caching

• Domain verification

• SEO and analytics features

  
  

Updating just the A record skips all of this. You're pointing your domain to a static IP, but missing the rest of the DNS architecture Wix needs to function properly.

🔍 The Solution: Pointing Your Nameservers to Wix

To make a Wix-built website live, Wix requires full DNS control. That means you need to change the nameservers (NS records) at your domain registrar to the following:

• ns14.wixdns.net

• ns15.wixdns.net

  
  

Why is this important?

Changing your nameservers gives Wix full control of the DNS zone. This allows Wix to automatically:

• Set the correct A records and CNAMEs

• Install and manage SSL certificates

• Redirect and forward URLs

• Add MX records

• Ensure faster propagation and better support

  
  

Without this, your website is missing key backend functionality and will not go live—even if it has the correct IP address.

🚀 Conclusion

If your Wix website isn’t live despite updating the A record, it's because Wix needs full DNS control through its nameservers. Pointing just the A record to the IP address is incomplete and will not bring your site online.

👉 Changing the nameservers to ns14.wixdns.net and ns15.wixdns.net is the only way to make your Wix website live.