When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally regarded as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company can have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to 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'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every hosting plan that we offer, will allow you to view, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, for example, you would like to use the e-mail 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. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.