When you add a domain 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 created automatically as soon as the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an example, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 will see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting package from our company, you're going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains with ease via our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any complications. We've got a large help section that'll make things even easier. If you would like to switch your e-mail provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have 100 % control of your domain names and subdomains and you are going to be able to handle their A and MX records easily and at any time.