When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the emails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are often considered to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you want. For example, some new service provider might have outstanding 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 name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you would like to direct either your site or your e-mails to a different provider, it will take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and edit 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 set up more MX records than the default two, it will not 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 greater the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if required, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.