When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally regarded as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an example, some new provider could have outstanding 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 Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to 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'll see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting from us, you will be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will allow you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you want to use the email services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.