How DNS works at Maxinodes

Applies to: All plans

DNS at Maxinodes is managed by us, on our own nameservers. When you order a hosting service, we automatically create a DNS zone for your domain, and you edit its records from your client area at my.maxinodes.com — not in cPanel. This article explains the moving parts so you know where each setting lives.

The two things that make DNS work

DNS has two layers, and it helps to keep them separate.

Point your nameservers at Maxinodes once. After that, all day-to-day changes happen in the records, which you manage in the client area.

Your nameservers

To use Maxinodes hosting and DNS, set your domain to use these two nameservers at your registrar:

• ns1.maxinodes.com
• ns2.maxinodes.com

These are the current, live nameservers for every Maxinodes-hosted domain.

For step-by-step instructions, see How to point your domain to Maxinodes (set your nameservers).

What "managed by us" means for you

Our nameservers run on a global anycast DNS network (provided by Bunny.net), so your records resolve quickly and reliably worldwide. In practice:

• A zone is created automatically for your domain the moment your hosting service is set up — you do not have to build it.
• You manage records in the client area, not the cPanel zone editor. The cPanel DNS/zone tools do not control your live DNS on our platform.
• Your zone already contains the basic records that point your website at our hosting node, and a new hosting zone also contains the records for the mailboxes included with your plan.

To add or change records, see How to manage DNS records in your client area.

Records that point at our server

Your website lives on our hosting node, which is dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6):

Customer websites are served over both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack). When your domain uses our nameservers, the zone we create contains both the A and the AAAA records for your domain, www, cpanel and ftp — you do not have to add anything. AutoSSL (Let's Encrypt) covers both addresses.

If you keep DNS at another provider, add the records there yourself: an A record to 185.185.49.198, and an AAAA record to 2a00:7c80:0:286:c::10 so IPv6 visitors reach you too.

Records for email

Every hosting plan includes mailboxes on your own domain. When we create a new hosting zone, we add their records for you:

• MX to mx.maxinodes.com (priority 10), so incoming mail reaches your mailboxes.
• A and AAAA records for mail, webmail, autoconfig and autodiscover, plus an SRV record for _autodiscover._tcp, so mail apps and webmail find the server.
• SPF (v=spf1 include:_spf.maxinodes.com ~all), DKIM (default._domainkey) and DMARC (v=DMARC1; p=none), plus a _mailchannels TXT record for our outgoing mail relay; together they authenticate the mail you send.

If your domain's mail is already with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or another outside provider when the zone is created, we copy that provider's mail records instead, and your mail stays where it is. If your zone has no mail records, ask us and we will add them.

If you need shared calendars, Teams, shared drives or compliance features, Professional Email (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) is the upgrade. Its records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) are unique to your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace account and come from the Microsoft 365 admin centre or the Google Workspace setup wizard. They replace the mailbox records above, and you manage them in the same client area DNS manager. If you ordered your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace seats through us, we configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC for you — on any hosting plan.

See The DNS records your email needs (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC).

Quick reference

Related articles

• Your Maxinodes nameservers
• How to point your domain to Maxinodes (set your nameservers)
• How to manage DNS records in your client area
• The DNS records your email needs (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC)