Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you want. For example, some new provider might have fantastic uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website 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 have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared hosting that we offer you, will allow you to see, change and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our sophisticated tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.