Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are created 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 name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the emails for that specific domain name. The site and the email hosting are usually regarded as one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new provider can have outstanding uptime for your site, but you may 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 latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will 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 website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting through us, you're going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify specific records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to another service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you decide to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.