When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The site and the email hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For instance, some new provider may have excellent uptime for your site, 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 e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will 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'll see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting we offer you, allows you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, for instance, you wish to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.