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Using email hosting that requires my custom domain to point there. Causing conflict on DNS setup

InfinityFree Forum [Unofficial] May 30, 2026
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Statera_Solutions:

Is it possible to have the website hosted here while still using Zoho for email?

Absolutely! Since we don’t provide email services ourselves, using an external email provider is the only way you can get email.

On a single domain name, you can have only one provider for DNS hosting. That’s whose nameservers you should be using. From that DNS hosting provider, you can delegate different services to different providers: website to us, email to Zoho.

We provide nameservers you can use, but we provide limited DNS controls so you may not be able to configure all records that Zoho wants. Maybe Zoho provides DNS hosting you could use instead, and most domain name providers also come with their own DNS hosting.

The only caveat is that this make you responsible for configuring your own DNS records, which is a bit more involved than just updating nameservers. We have a guide on how to do that here:

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