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 company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain. The site and the email hosting are generally regarded as one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an example, some new company might have superb uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider 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 are going to see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux hosting package which we offer you, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an example, you would like to use the email services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails 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 advanced tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.