Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically the moment the Internet 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 indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular domain address. The site and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an example, some new company can have superb uptime for your site, but you may 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 e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 are going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account through our company and you wish to point either your site or your emails to an alternative service provider, it's going to take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it's not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up won't take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.