Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that specific domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically considered to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For instance, some new service provider can have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a Linux shared website hosting package through us, you are going to be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change particular records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails directed to another 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 elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain at all. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.