Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain address. The website and the email hosting are typically regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an example, some new provider can have exceptional uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every hosting plan which we offer, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even if you have no previous experience with such matters.