External domain, dns, email, and web routing

[tay]

I have my domain taygeldon.com set up with Hover. I have email enabled through Hover as well using their mail/webmail addon thing.

How can I point web requests to my reclaim shared account where I have installed wordpress using the installer, without effecting mail?

I am familiar with editing dns records but not sure which ones to change in hover to accomplish this.

[tay]

I just realized that it might be better to flip this around and use reclaim to manage my domain and point the right mx record or records back to hover.

I found their support page on doing that and have changed the nameservers to reclaim. However, when i attempt to add the mx record, I can’t match up Hover’s directions with the options when editing the records in cpanel here. Their instructions (https://help.hover.com/hc/en-us/articles/217281927-Buying-and-managing-your-email-accounts) say to use these settings:

Type: MX
Hostname: @
Priority: 10
Mail Server:  mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com
TTL 15 minutes (default)

But I cannot use an @ in the hostname when configuring the mx record in cpanel.

[gordonhawley]

Hi Tay,

It might be better just to stick with the Hover name servers. You can repoint the A record to the IP of the server your account here at Reclaim is hosted on,

165.227.159.168

Let me know if you need anything else.

Gordon Hawley
Customer Support Specialist
Reclaim Hosting