Whenever you add a domain 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 when the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that particular domain address. The site and the email hosting are typically perceived as one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an illustration, some new service provider can have excellent uptime for your website, 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 second, you can get the best of both providers. 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 is going to 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'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting which we provide, will permit you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, for example, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.