Server issue affect email?

[Saulo]

Hello!

Can anyone answer this doubt:
Server downtime affects email accounts...?
Receiving and delivering emails?
If i have a mx record pointing to my domain provider i'm still able to receive emails???

Regards

 

[Smith6612]

It depends on what is going on and what is actually Down on the server. If for example, nginx/Apache are down, you won't be able to view your website but anything else will still function. Now if it's high server load, you might still receive mail, but your site may not open due to high load. If the server is physically down though, that will cause delivery failures after a while.

 

[Saulo]

So i'm always able to receive emails right?
For example if someone send a direct email (not from my future php contact page in my site) i will receive it?

 

[Smith6612]

So i'm always able to receive emails right?
For example if someone send a direct email (not from my future php contact page in my site) i will receive it?

You should be able to, yes. That is only if the mail software on the server isn't having issues, the server itself is down or the server is not blacklisted.

 

[Saulo]

Ok! Thank you... just one more question.
For instance can i point my site to my domain registrar with a fix ip???
Like that i don't have to change the mx record and instead of changing the nameservers just edit the ip!

Sorry if questions are silly....
Newbie here!

 

[Smith6612]

Ok! Thank you... just one more question.
For instance can i point my site to my domain registrar with a fix ip???
Like that i don't have to change the mx record and instead of changing the nameservers just edit the ip!

Sorry if questions are silly....
Newbie here!

That should work fine, though I'm not 100% sure. With my website, my Dynamic DNS domain name simply uses an IP address to point to. Sends and Receives mail just fine, though I left cPanel's MX settings to the "Automatic" setting.

 

[Saulo]

Thank you for the support...

Regards,
Saulo