When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are set up automatically as soon as the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually regarded as one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new service provider may have fantastic uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either 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 have set records different from their own, the right 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 Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to point either your website or your emails to an alternative provider, it is going to take you literally simply 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are 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 e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create won't take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.