Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are often considered to be 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 would like. As an example, some new service provider can have superb 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 to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will 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 site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting which we offer you, will enable you to see, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, for instance, you wish to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no prior experience with such matters.