Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the domain address 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. The website and the e-mail hosting are often regarded as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an example, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to 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 are going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting which we offer, will allow you to see, change and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.