I am going to have my professional e-mail address hosted with an e-mail hosting company, but keep my website hosted with a regular hosting company.
I need to update my MX records in Cpanel to do so. Not a problem. I've done this before.
Here's my thought / question:
In the event that there was an outage and my hosting went down, the web hosting company wouldn’t be able to “tell the world” about the MX records and direct emails to the correct place. I would not get the e-mails then. Is my understanding correct? So I better have a reputable host with good uptime. Correct?
I need to update my MX records in Cpanel to do so. Not a problem. I've done this before.
Here's my thought / question:
In the event that there was an outage and my hosting went down, the web hosting company wouldn’t be able to “tell the world” about the MX records and direct emails to the correct place. I would not get the e-mails then. Is my understanding correct? So I better have a reputable host with good uptime. Correct?
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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