Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new provider might have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting plan from our company, you're going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change particular records through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails directed to another company if you want to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will even permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do that with just a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.