Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after 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 show the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. For example, some new company can have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you want to direct either your site or your e-mails to a different service provider, it is going to take you literally just 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or set up isn't going to take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.