Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically as soon as the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new service provider may have fantastic uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to 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 site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your site or your emails to an alternative service provider, it's going to take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it won't take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.