Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the emails for that particular Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an illustration, some new service provider may have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've 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 Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you want to switch either your site or your emails to another service provider, it will take you literally simply two clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.