I read that it would be desirable to "verify" my email provider (zoho), so according to their instructions I added the following records to my DNS (CNAME code altered slightly):
CNAME zb14799999 zmverify.zoho.com
TXT @ v=spf1 include:zoho.com ~all
After doing this my website broke and the DNS for my website (the A records) no longer work, although email continues to work.
So, what is going on here? I read up on the CNAME record and apparently it aliases the whole domain, so are web requests now going to zoho, instead of to where the A records are pointing? Maybe I don't understand how email verification works. Why would I have to alias my whole domain to my email provider to "verify" them?