When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name 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 often considered to be one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an example, some new provider could have fantastic 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 name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you wish to switch either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it will take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it is not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.