Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an example, some new company might have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the company 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 correct 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 Hosting

With a hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease using our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any problems. We have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you wish to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you'll have 100 % control of your domain names and subdomains and you are going to be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.