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Hostings
11-03-2003, 17:23
I would like to find out, for webhostings providers to do just email hostings,
e.g.
I buy a domain xxx.com from ABC Registrar. I point the DNS to Company A for webhostings. But email is a indispensible tool i need and i can't trust Company A enough for the stability. But Company A's webhostings prices are attractive to me. I want to stay with them but i want to do email hostings with Company B.

Question : Do i ask Company A to point my domain's DNS Zone to Company B or do i add DNS from my domain panel?

Curious ..
Duskette
11-03-2003, 20:17
moving to tech support zone.
Heng Chai
11-03-2003, 22:22
Host your DNS elsewhere, zoneedit or everydns. Then point A records to Company A, MX records to Company B.
Hostings
12-03-2003, 18:17
Then the other CNAME is for what?
Heng Chai
12-03-2003, 21:51
A points to IP
CNAME points to HOST

sg.gs IN A 203.208.232.100
www.sg.gs IN CNAME sg.gs.
Zoomer
12-03-2003, 22:13
If you are using cpanel, just goto that and modify your mx entries there.

Get your email provider to help you step by step with this. :)
choon
01-04-2003, 08:49
Originally posted by Hostings
Then the other CNAME is for what?

Hmm... actually not necessary to have CNAME... read about it here: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8815/fid/699

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon
Heng Chai
01-04-2003, 11:57
CNAME helps administrators save updating work. Imagine yourself having to change hundreds of A records. Technical horror if you don't know how to code scripts to do it.
choon
01-04-2003, 18:34
Originally posted by SG.GS
CNAME helps administrators save updating work. Imagine yourself having to change hundreds of A records. Technical horror if you don't know how to code scripts to do it.

True but there is always some trade-offs... like one of them as shown from the link I posted previously:
It's illegal to point NS, MX or CNAME records to CNAMEs. That alone
should be enough reason to not use them. Somebody else may CNAME to a
host at your site, and the moment you change that A into a CNAME stuff
breaks [this point is the same as Dan’s]

Whereby for updating manually for a system administrator... yes, it is a horror if doing it manually but many system administrators are able to create some scripts to help them to lighten this area of load or else he/she won't have much time for other things :D

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon