# Adding a studio to a subdomain

**URL:** <https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 7, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546 "2024-09-07T10:55:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@craigd](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/craigd)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546/1 "2024-09-07T10:55:42Z")

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I am having trouble adding a subdomain, I have a domain name registered on Cloudflare and my domain hosted on dreamhost - I am not sure where to make the changes advised below, should it be on Cloudflare or Dreamhost. And assuming it is just Cname I need to do.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/uploads/pickaxeproject/original/1X/8bf99573d36612b3d209c5a8130f4473ea54b256.png)

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**Author:** ![nathaniel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/nathaniel/32/11_2.png) [@nathaniel](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/nathaniel)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546/2 "2024-09-08T20:44:53Z")

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Hello!

It sounds like your domain is controlled through cloudflare. With Pickaxe, we host the studio page for you. So if you’d like to add a subdomain, don’t worry about dreamhost. Just add the CNAME listed to the DNS record in cloudflare.

It looks from your screenshot like you’re not trying to add a subdomain, but instead a root domain. In that case, you’d be putting your Pickaxe studio at the core of your website. If that’s what you’d like to do, instead you should use an A record to get the job done.

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**Author:** ![aigrowth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@aigrowth](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/aigrowth)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546/3 "2025-03-30T15:36:31Z")

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I am having this issue. Just want the website to sit on subdomain.

Should I be adding CNAME or A record. Using namecheap

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**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/adding-a-studio-to-a-subdomain/1546/4 "2025-03-30T16:24:01Z")

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This walkthrough post explains [how to host your studio at a subdomain](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/walkthrough-how-to-host-studios-at-custom-domain/507). If you want to host your studio at a subdomain specifically you’ll want to use a CNAME.