Hosting on Godaddy but want to use Route53 for DNS

[bhageria]

Hi

My website is hosted on Godaddy hosting platform. I want to use AWS Route53 for managing the DNS.

Where should I point the origin to in ROute 53? Since the hosting is shared, I do not have a dedicated IP for the website.

Thanks!!

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@bhageria 

Even if you are on shared (cPanel) hosting - You still have an IP address assigned to your server/account - You would just point to that IP address

[bhageria]

Thanks for replying. Yes there is an IP address but it shows as "Shared IP Address".

Won't this IP be used by other hosted websites also?

Say I and another person Tom both get the same shared IP and both configure Route53 to point to this IP. Won't that be a problem? Will Godaddy redirect the requests for my site to my files?

[PL281]

@bhageria 

GoDaddy does the routing at their side - for example with Managed WordPress there are many sites that have the same IP address - GoDaddy handles when a "request" comes in - (someone types your domain into the browser) that it directs (maps) that to the correct account

[bhageria]

Thank you so much for clarifying!!