| Posted by cgl102770, 04-20-2017, 03:42 PM | |
I'm a web designer who's client is moving their website from my bluehost account to their own bluehost account. Currently, their websites email has its mx settings at bluehost, though since we are moving the hosting, we are going to have to change those settings over to their account. I'm wondering, since they check their .com's email through gmail, if we can bypass adding the mx settings in bluehost and just add them where there dns is registered, which I believe is Godaddy. Thank you for any info and I hope this is the right place to ask this.
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| Posted by Harzem, 04-20-2017, 03:55 PM | |
From what you told, their current setup seems like this
GoDaddy points to ns1.bluehost.com & ns2.bluehost.com (or similar) >> Bluehost serves MX, CNAME, A, TXT and any other DNS records, where MX points to Google and A points to Bluehost webservers.
You can't just move MX records to GoDaddy, and keep the rest on Bluehost. They all should reside in the DNS server, which is currently Bluehost (pointed by GoDaddy).
You can probably use GoDaddy's or some other DNS server (such as NameCheap), but I don't know if Bluehost's DNS servers are specific to their service (such as dynamic dns). I recommend not experimenting, and using Bluehost's DNS as before.
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| Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss, 04-20-2017, 05:19 PM | |
You'll have to use GoDaddy's DNS manager to do this. In order to use that, you'll have to use GoDaddy's nameservers for your domain. You will also need to edit the A and CNAME records on the DNS manager so that they point to the hosting server.
Still, you will need to modify the MX (and SPF if you use them) record on the hosting server so that they point to gmail servers.
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| Posted by DWS2006, 04-21-2017, 03:55 PM | |
If you use third-party dns, just be sure that the customer is monitoring their site closely. Any IP address change on BlueHost's part will require a corresponding update to the A record(s) for the domain. This can lead to frustrating downtime if the site is not monitored well.
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| Posted by Host4Geeks-Kushal, 04-22-2017, 12:41 AM | |
The MX Records changes will need to be made whereever the DNS Zone is hosted. If you are pointing the domain to BlueHost's nameservers such as nsx.bluehost.com, then the MX Records will need to be changed at BlueHost. Alternatively, you may use an external DNS Hosting such as GoDaddy or even CloudFlare and host your DNS records with them.
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| Posted by cgl102770, 04-26-2017, 02:03 PM | |
This all makes sense, thank you for the info.
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| Posted by scott_m, 04-27-2017, 02:40 PM | |
MX records will need to be configured from where the name servers are pointed. If pointed to GoDaddy, then change them there. If the domain is simply registeredwith GoDaddy and nameservers are pointed to Bluehost, then you will need to make the changes at Bluehost.
Wherever the nameservers are pointed is the DNS authority.
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