When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 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, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain address. The site and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an illustration, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using 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 providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you want to switch either your site or your e-mails to an alternative provider, it is going to take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do it. 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 will be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail 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 mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.