When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain address. The site and the email hosting are often considered 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 company can have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can 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 is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains easily by using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any complications. We have a large help section that'll make things even easier. If you want to change your email 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 will deal with your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you'll have 100 % control of your domains and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.