Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically as soon as the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new service provider may have outstanding 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 to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either case, 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 correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting plan from us, you are going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records takes 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any troubles. We have a large 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 standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.