When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when 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 indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you want. For example, some new provider could have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails 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 second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the service provider 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 correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud package we offer, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, for example, you would like to use the email services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.