When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after 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 where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are usually perceived as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an illustration, some new company may have superb uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet 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 Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared website hosting plan that we provide, will permit you to see, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, as an illustration, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no prior experience with such matters.