Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the email hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an illustration, some new provider could have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails 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 providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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'll see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud plan which we provide, will permit you to see, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Also you can 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'll contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.