cPanel: one domain, two servers (one for email another for webpages)

Scenario (domain morph-alien-store.com):

• Domain Nameservers points to Server 1
• Server 1 (102.160.14.49): with cpanel account for hosting emails
• Server 2 (89.95.50.13): with cpanel account for hosting webpage

In this scenario, you only have access to the domains configurations and to server 1.

Your default DNS Zone at server 1 will look like something like this:

1. morph-alien-store.com. 14400 A 102.160.14.49
2. morph-alien-store.com. 14400 MX Priority: 0 Destination: morph-alien-store.com
3. mail.morph-alien-store.com. 14400 CNAME morph-alien-store.com
4. www.morph-alien-store.com. 14400 CNAME morph-alien-store.com

Changes you must do:

• Item 1, change the destination IP from server 1 to server 2 (89.95.50.13). This make the webpage located at server 2 to show up.
• Item 2, change the “Destination” from morph-alien-store.com to mail.morph-alien-store.com, this will direct the emails from the main domain explicitly to mail.morph-alien-store.com that has the IP of server 1 (next item)
• Item 3, change the Record Type from CNAME to A, and the Record from mail.morph-alien-store.com to the IP of server 1 (102.160.14.49)

There is no need to change anything more. Here is how it should look like:

1. morph-alien-store.com. 14400 A 89.95.50.13
2. morph-alien-store.com. 14400 MX Priority: 0 Destination: mail.morph-alien-store.com
3. mail.morph-alien-store.com. 14400 A 102.160.14.49
4. www.morph-alien-store.com. 14400 CNAME morph-alien-store.com

With this configuration in server 1, you should be able to receive your emails in server 1 and have the webpage at server 2.

Please be aware when configuring the emails accounts that the Incoming and Outgoing will be specifically “mail.morph-alien-store.com”.