Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. For example, 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 could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed site or your e-mail 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 would like to move either your site or your emails to another service provider, it is going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers 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 edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a few 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 every record that you change or create will not take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.