Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain address. The website and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you want. For instance, some new company could have fantastic uptime for your website, but you may 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 e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every cloud plan we offer you, will enable you to view, change and create A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an illustration, you want to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're 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.