When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For example, some new company might have excellent 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 Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any 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 are going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux web hosting package we provide, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, 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 is going to contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.