Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are set up automatically when the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company could have superb 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 domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain 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 is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account through our company and you wish to switch either your site or your emails to an alternative company, it is going to take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains 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 want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.