Every site you publish with Bliss Studio is served from a single renderer at the edge. When someone visits one of your domains, we read the host and path, look up the matching published page, and return it. There is no per-site server to provision and nothing for you to deploy.
You get a free subdomain on bliss-dns.com (for example yourname.bliss-dns.com)
the moment you create a site, and you can connect your own custom domain whenever
you are ready.
"Nothing lives here yet"
This page appears when you reach a domain that is not yet connected to a published Bliss Studio site. It is the renderer telling you, politely, that it has nothing to show for this address.
You will usually see it for one of these reasons:
- The domain is yours, but the site is not published. Open your dashboard, finish the site, and hit publish. Once a page is live for that host, this screen is replaced by your content.
- The domain is yours, but it is still connecting. A freshly added custom domain needs its DNS record and certificate to settle. This can take a little while after you point it at us. See Connecting a custom domain below.
- The domain is not connected to Bliss Studio at all. If you reached this page by mistake, double-check the address.
If you believe the site should be live, the dashboard is the place to confirm the domain is verified and a page is published.
"Almost there"
This page appears on a domain that is linked to a Bliss Studio site but is not serving it yet. Unlike "nothing lives here yet", the renderer knows about your domain: something in the setup just has not completed.
The usual causes, in order of likelihood:
- DNS is still verifying. Your CNAME record has been added but has not been confirmed yet. Verification runs from the domain's settings page in the dashboard; propagation can take a little while depending on your DNS provider.
- The certificate is still being issued. A fresh custom domain gets its TLS certificate through our platform; this usually completes within minutes of DNS verifying.
- Nothing is published yet. The domain is verified but the site has no published pages. Publish from the editor and refresh.
The domain's settings page in your dashboard shows which of these applies, with the exact DNS records to check.
"Ready when you are"
This page means the domain is fully connected — DNS verified, certificate
issued, project linked — but the site has no published pages at all. Nothing is
wrong: publish your first page from the editor and it replaces this screen
immediately. (An unpublished site with a published custom _404 page serves
that page instead.)
The Bliss Studio host
If you land on bliss-dns.com itself, rather than one of the sites hosted on it,
you are looking at the host that powers every Bliss Studio subdomain and custom
domain. It is not a customer site, it is the front door.
From here, head to your dashboard to manage your sites, domains, and content. Everything you publish is served from this same edge renderer, so what you see in the editor is what visitors get.
Connecting a custom domain
To serve a site from your own domain:
- Add the domain to your site in the dashboard.
- Create a
CNAMErecord at your DNS provider pointing the domain atbliss-dns.com. - Wait for the certificate to be issued. We provision TLS for your domain automatically once the DNS record is in place.
Once the domain is verified and a page is published, requests to it are served the
same way as your bliss-dns.com subdomain. Until then, visitors see the
"Nothing lives here yet" page described above.