Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally perceived as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. For example, some new company can have fantastic 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 former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the 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 are going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting which we offer, will enable you to view, modify and create A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for example, you wish to use the email services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, 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. With our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.