My client has their domain name (lorem.com) registered with company X which also host their email. I'd like to host their new website with separate hosting company (company Y). I know I need to update the DNS nameservers for their domain name to point to company Y's nameservers. I'm not sure how to handle the email host though. Doing an MX lookup on their domain, currently shows:
Pref Hostname
10 lorem.com
20 mx2.companyX.com
Do I need to do any updates to the MX record? Also, do I need to add/edit the A record to point to company Y's IP address? Thanks!
So if I understand correctly, you are migrating only your website from the old hosting company to a new hosting company.
Do I need to do any updates to the MX record?
No, since you want the old server(hosting company) to keep managing your emails, no changes to MX records are required.
Also, do I need to add/edit the A record to point to company Y's IP address?
Correct. All you need is to put in a new A record to company Y's IP. Remember to change the A record for .(root) and www (if www subdomain exists) and any other sub-domains that your website may have (eg. ftp etc.)
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I have 3 domains, on one there is a website built, the other two are merely placeholders for branding purposes. Currently the other two merely point their DNS records to the IP address where the primary domain has its website.
I would like to redirect the two domains to specific respective pages on the website of the primary domain. ie: placeholder-domain1.com -> mainwebsite.com/brand1 and placeholder-domain2.com -> mainwebsite.com/brand2
I have tried modifying the redirects in cPanel but they do not seem to be working... Possibly because the domain DNS records still point to the IP address where the main website is. I have full cPanel access but not WHM in case that matters.
Thanks in advance :)
I am quite new to webadmin (esp email setups), and I am in the process of setting up emails for an app (mydomain.com) which is hosted elsewhere (a VPS provider via cloudflare dns)
I have a small shared hosting plan with directadmin acces with another provider, and I am wondering as to how I set up an email only system for my app (which is hosted elsewhere), with this shared hosting provider.
My questions are:
[1] Do I simply point the MX record for the domain (in cloudflare) to the shared hosting IP address and create the email addresses with directadmin?
[2] Do I need to add my domain name in directadmin? or do I add mail.mydomain.com?
Any help or pointers to this will be great!
For the first question, Yes. You need to point the MX Record to the shared hosting IP and create the email adres in directadmin
[2] If you want to use you domain for the email then you need to add the domain indeed. After that you can add custom email prefixes (info#example.com) to that domain.
For more information about this you can always read:
http://www.site-helper.com/
I've got a domain myawsdomain.com on AWS through Route 53.
I have an email server set up with a different service under a different domain myemaildomain.com.
I have an email account set up for fred#myemaildomain.com.
I'd like to have an address inquiry#myawsdomain.com forward directly to fred#myemaildomain.com. Is there a way to do that with just DNS, or am I going to need an email server running at myawsdomain.com to make this happen?
You can point the MX records at any provider willing (and configured) to handle email for your domain. Most paid email hosts will allow you to point multiple domains at their service.
MX records are separate from your other records, so you can point your A at AWS and your MX at, say, Google Apps. (Note: there are special oddities with CNAMEs - they can't coexist with a MX.)
I would like find out how to keep my email hosting and domain registered and hosted with 123 reg (my current website host) but point my domain to another host where i want to move my website to?
Thanks in advance.
Edit the DNS records to
1. keep the MX records and naked domain A record (domain.tld only) - as is
2. Create A or CNAME records for www.domain.tld for the web site subdomain (www).
You may point the naked domain to another provider as well, but it might be a bit tricky with some DNS editing interfaces.
I tried searching on SO but all answers seem to involve .htaccess and 301 redirects. I am wondering if there is a way to do this just using cpanel and the DNS providers interface.
Simply I own two domain names: mysite.com and thissite.com
Both are currently pointing to servers and both have email addresses associated with them.
I want to point thissite.com to mysite.com without disrupting the email addresses already associated with thissite.com
At first I changed the nameservers of thissite.com to be the same as mysite.com but this disrupted the emails so I quickly changed them back.
I then changed the A record of thissite.com to point to the IP address of mysite.com. The same issue seems to have occurred though - the email addresses are still broken.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Thanks
Normally A records are not related to emails. Possibly your email problems caused by DNS still cached since your first experiment.
DNS stores a destination SMTP server where email for the domain in an MX-type record. See what MX record you have for thissite.com.
nslookup
set type=mx
thissite.com
If your domain have correct MX records, then the A record do not matter for emails.