United Kingdom Server DNS Settings

Quick Reference DNS settings to get your website & Google Workspace Emails live.
Please read on for instructions.

Host	Type	Destination	Priority
@	A	162.13.104.139
www	CNAME	uk.rocketspark.com
@	MX	ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM	1
@	MX	ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM	5
@	MX	ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM	5
@	MX	ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM	10
@	MX	ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM	10

yourdomain.co.uk A 162.13.104.139  
www.yourdomain.co.uk CNAME uk.rocketspark.com

If you have email accounts on your domain and you wish to leave your email accounts with your current email provider you do not need to make any changes to your MX records.  Please note, that changing the MX records below will change where your emails are being sent to. If you are hosting the email accounts with your current/existing provider, you should not change the MX records.

 

 

If you currently don't have any MX records set up on your domain, then your current email traffic will fall back to sending to the A record set for your domain name as a default.  If this is how your DNS settings on your domain are currently set up, when you change your A record to point to Rocketspark’s IP address for your website traffic then your emails will stop working as your emails will be inadvertently sent to Rocketspark by mistake.  To work around this, you must set up a new A record for your email traffic, like you have done above for the website.

1. Set up a new A record to point to the IP address of your existing provider. This will look something like this:
   
   Example: mail.mydomain.com A (123.1.12.12)  This IP address needs to be set to your current website's A record for your old website.  If you're not sure what your old email/website provider's IP address is, you'll need to touch base with your current email provider for help.  
   
   Commonly this would be something like mail.mydomain.com, but you can use any subdomain of your choosing. We just need an A record setup to use in the next step to create your new MX records.
    
2. Once you have done this you can then set up an MX record to divert your email traffic to the current provider independent of the website traffic.
   
   mydomain.com MX 10 mail.mydomain.com (as an example of what your MX records may look like)
   
   Or alternatively, if you're not sure what your email providers' MX records are, you'll need to touch base with your current email provider for help.

 

If you are wanting to add an additional domain name to your website please follow our guides to either register a new domain name or transfer/self-manage and existing domain.