Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically perceived as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an example, some new service provider can have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain is going to 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 will see the needed website or your e-mail is going to 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 that we offer, will permit you to see, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, as an example, you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite 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 is going to contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.