When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three 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 address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain address. The site and the email hosting are usually considered to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For example, some new service provider can have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address will 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every hosting plan which we offer, will permit you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our advanced tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no prior experience with such matters.