If you’ve used your personal domain on Tumblr you’d know how easy it is to set it up: you create an A-record at your domain provider, in my case GoDaddy, and tell Tumblr what your domain is. That’s it.
Aside from being dumbly easy, this configuration has always tempted me to be a tumblr user with my domain. Reason being, I could host my email MX record configuration at GoDaddy which means I ensure a better quality or uptime for my precious email records – which in plain English means I get my emails all the time.
Judging by the fact I rely a whole lot on those records to receive my emails, I kinda need to make sure that’s properly handled before settling for a specific setup.
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