Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically the moment the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally perceived as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. For example, some new provider can have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might 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 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 want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the service 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 email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting from our company, you are going to be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with simply a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.