Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new service provider could have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, 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 right web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a Linux shared web hosting through us, you'll be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails pointed to another company if you wish to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will even permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with only a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.