When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. 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 address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally perceived as one thing, when they're in reality 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 service provider can have superb 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 domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting through our company, you will be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. So long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify certain records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address the slightest bit. If you decide to use the email services of another provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a couple of clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.