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 as soon as 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 where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific domain address. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually regarded as one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new company can have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, 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 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 site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting through our company, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a particular domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify certain records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our innovative 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 decide to use the e-mail services of another service provider 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 can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.