Updating MX records in cPanel for web hosting?

@dominame Just a little update, I ditched clouDNS for a better setup.

Looking at this chart, ClouDNS is towards the bottom: http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/

So what I did was signup for NS1.com (free) and HE.net (free). The two can work together. You can set things up so NS1.com is the primary DNS server, and HE.net is the secondary/slave.

It took me a while to figure out, but I got it! After I finished setting up my HE.net account as the secondary, the records from NS1.com populated into my HE.net account within minutes. Any changes I make at NS1.com will update at HE.net within minutes as well. My domain now has 5 nameservers listed (3 NS1.com and 2 HE.net.) So if either company goes down from an outage or attack, the other one should respond to any DNS requests. I would list more nameservers, but my registrar only allows 5 maximum.

With this new setup, I'm pretty confident my private email website is perfect now. I won't have to worry about an outage and not having e-mails delivered.

4 servers is standard with the service. They have the world pretty well covered, which is one of several reasons I selected them as a supplier. Thanks for the feedback.

Quoted from Guest on Monday, 01 September 2025

Congratulations on getting it all set up. If the Imgur image is of your registrar's control panel you could have done it all in there though. Repeating an earlier post in this thread, many registrars simply don't offer that level of flexibility, hence my question then.

Just for my information, did you get the free ClouDNS service? Or did you opt for the paid one? I'm almost ready to launch my hosting business and within that DNS services as a reseller of ClouDNS will be part of the offering with the free version included. Interesting to know if the free version works as well as the rest of it in practice.

I chose the free ClouDNS option. I didn't see the need for the paid service, since they give me 4 servers to use. It would be quite rare for 4 to go down at once, right? They are all in different locations.

Congratulations on getting it all set up. If the Imgur image is of your registrar's control panel you could have done it all in there though. Repeating an earlier post in this thread, many registrars simply don't offer that level of flexibility, hence my question then.

Just for my information, did you get the free ClouDNS service? Or did you opt for the paid one? I'm almost ready to launch my hosting business and within that DNS services as a reseller of ClouDNS will be part of the offering with the free version included. Interesting to know if the free version works as well as the rest of it in practice.

UPDATE:

I created a ClouDNS account. Everything is up and running! I don't know what I was nervous about, but I got everything figured out pretty easily.

I have HawkHost hosting my static webpage so if people come to my inbox domain name, they will see a nice message saying it's a privately owned email domain. Then, I paid Apps4Rent.com $6.25/mo to host my new personal Exchange e-mail address. $75/yr to be rid of my outlook.com address and Microsoft's crappy spam and phishing filters!

Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it.

Before I signup for ClouDNS, I would like to know... can I just edit the DNS Settings with Netim? I can add everything when I go to my registrar's DNS Settings. I got all the records from "Zone Editor" in cPanel and entered them over at Netim. Here is a screenshot: https://imgur.com/k9j9G66

I haven't done the MX records yet, because I still need to signup for Exchange mail hosting. That will be next.

Should this work how I am imagining it or do I HAVE to go with something like ClouDNS? Right now if I go to the website, I am still seeing a generic Netim webpage.

Lol.That's cool. Just substitute your actual host, where the cPanel you mentioned is, for Imgur.

Imgur is just a place to upload photos to share in situations like this lol They are not my web hosting company.

Sorry, I copied Imgur when I meant Netim. Let's start again. Set up a (free if you only have one domain) ClouDNS account. Point your domain from the registrar, Netim, at that account (the CouDNS instructions tell you how, come back to me if you get lost or confused). I haven't used the free account, I use mine for many domains and have many zones.

Still, I think you should be able to set up the A and AAAA records to point to your web hosting service and the MX records to the mail hosting service. There will also be plenty of records left to do the TXT records, as the mailing host will instruct you to do. The SOA record will be set up automatically with the zone creation.

My understanding from what you've said is that Imgur is your host. The whole idea is to separate the services so if one goes down the other is unaffected. So split the DNS service away from Imgur.

I changed the nameservers in my Netim.com account back to Netim. Now if I pick "DNS Settings" from the dropdown, I get this: https://imgur.com/nmAywa2

So is this where I would update and point to my webhosting, and then create MX records to point to my Exchange mail hosting, etc.?

Could I just do this option vs. going to somewhere like CloudDNS as mentioned before?