When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain name. The site and the email hosting are usually regarded as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. For instance, some new company can have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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'll see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account from our company and you would like to direct either your site or your emails to another service provider, it'll take you literally only two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or create is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.