Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are generally perceived as one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new provider might 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 name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 will see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting plan which we provide, will permit you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.