Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically regarded as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For example, some new company may have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages 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 second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - 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've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you would like to direct either your site or your emails to an alternative company, it will take you literally just 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with 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 choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.