- Tell it the job
- It reads it back
- Choose what to share
- One step
- You do it
- Done
One job, start to finish.
You describe what you’re trying to get done. Alongrail works out what it needs to see, then guides you through it one step at a time.
Step 1
Tell it the job.
Describe the whole job, not the next click. A sentence is enough, and more detail is better.
Your goal
Step 2
It reads it back.
Before anything starts, you see what Alongrail understood, and what you’ll need to hand. Correct it if it’s wrong.
What it understood
Change the address records at the registrar and leave the mail records alone.
Have ready
Registrar login · the new host’s address
Step 3
Choose what to share.
One browser tab, one application window, or your whole screen. Your browser asks, and what you pick is what Alongrail sees.
Choose what to share with www.alongrail.com
The site will be able to see the contents of your screen
Window
Your browser's own dialog · we can't change it
Step 4
One step.
Read from what’s on your screen right now. If something has moved since the last time anyone wrote a tutorial, it doesn’t matter.
Open DNS records in the left menu. A table of records appears.
Step 5
You do it.
Every click is yours. Alongrail confirms the step landed, then gives you the next one.
You click it. Alongrail watches nothing until you ask again.
Step 6
Done.
The job is finished, and you know how it was done.
Done. The site loads from the new host and a test email still arrives.
If a step doesn’t match your screen
Press Didn’t work and say what you see. Alongrail works out where you actually are and picks up from there. You never have to start again.
Use your judgement
Please take a moment before any change involving money, permissions, deleting data or publishing. Alongrail reads your screen carefully, but you decide whether each step is right for you.
Its guidance comes from what it can see on your screen, and it can sometimes misunderstand something. The same care goes for a site that’s already live: DNS changes in particular can take time to reverse.
Where another tool fits better
Alongrail guides; you do the clicking. It won’t act for you, it can’t see a phone screen, and if there’s nothing on screen to guide — a question with no interface behind it — it will say so and point you somewhere better.