AI tools such as Lovable and Framer have increasingly become popular for creating a website quickly without coding.
However, Lovable does not offer a professional email together with your website, so you will need a professional email service alongside your Lovable site.
In this guide, we show you how to configure your web hosting at nordicway so your website works with Lovable while your email continues to work with us.
You can easily use Lovable for your website and still keep your email on your Polar55 hosting. Everything is managed relatively easily via your DNS settings.
In short
- Website is typically controlled by A records or CNAME.
- Email is controlled by MX records.
This means your website can point to Lovable, while your email still points to your mail hosting with us.
Step 1: Find your DNS settings
Start by logging into your cPanel and go to DNS.
Step 2: Point your website to Lovable
In Lovable, you will normally receive setup details for your domain. This can either be:
- An IP address to be used in an A record
- A domain name to be used in a CNAME record
A typical example:
| Type | Name | Value | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | yourdomain.com. | Lovable IP address | Points root domain to Lovable |
| CNAME | www | Lovable domain | Points www version to Lovable |
Step 3: Keep your email on our mail hosting
To ensure your email continues to work with us, you must keep your MX records so they still point to your mail service with us.
Therefore, you should not simply delete all existing DNS records when pointing your website to Lovable.
Typically, these records must be preserved:
| Type | Name | Value | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| MX | yourdomain.com. | mail.yourdomain.com | Ensures mail is delivered to cPanel |
| A | Our server IP address | Ensures mail.yourdomain.com works |
Step 4: Check Email Routing in cPanel
Log in to cPanel and go to Email Routing.
If your email should remain on cPanel, Email Routing should typically be set to local delivery.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Changing or deleting MX records so email stops working.
- Changing nameservers without copying existing mail records.
- Forgetting the A record for mail.yourdomain.com.
- Setting Email Routing incorrectly in cPanel.
Conclusion
The correct setup is to let your website point to Lovable, while letting your MX and mail records point to our servers.
This way, you get a website built in Lovable while your existing email accounts continue to function on a professional mail hosting service like ours.