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Hosting website on DO but using shared hosting mail servers
I recently migrated my site from a shared hosting account on StableHost.com over to DO.
The file migration went smoothly (mostly), however, I have a question about the mail. With Stablehost, I managed everything through cpanel and configured my incoming and outgoing mail servers with Gmail based on the configuration info obtained from cpanel.
However, now that I’ve change my dns information to point to digitalocean servers, I’ve stopped receiving emails. I’m assuming there is something wrong that I have to change with the MX entries (on DO or on StableHost?)
Is it possible for me to keep using my old shared stablehost account just for the mail services (avoiding setting up my own mail servers on DO)? How do I configure this to fix my email?
Thank you!
Niket
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I guess you had your DNS setup on the shared hosting account. I haven’t used DO yet, just thinking about it, but you are correct you will need to update your MX record. Since I have not spun up a droplet yet, I’m not sure if DO has DNS on there droplets or not, but even if they do, I would recommend you hosting your DNS on another site. If you have godaddy as your registrar you can host DNS there for free. Other registrars have similar offerings.
Personally I have moved all my DNS services to DNSMadeEasy and have never looked back. They allow you to set up at least 8 vanity DNS servers located around the world. This will help yuor time to first byte and just make your domain look more professional. Speed is the main reason everyone is looking to SSD’s any way, correct :-)
@bhopkins thanks for your reply!
So I’m using Hover.com as my domain registrar and DO does have DNS configuration on the droplets.
So my question is…do I point the DO DNS to my StabeHost shared mx records? Or the other way around. Definitely very much confused here :S
ALternatively, I might just set up a Zoho mail since there seems to be a tutorial here at DO.