When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up 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 deals with the e-mails for that specific domain name. The website and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. For instance, some new company could have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address 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 e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain is going to 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify certain records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you want to use the email services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with just a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.