Whenever you add a domain name 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 set up automatically the moment 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 name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that particular domain. The site and the email hosting are typically perceived as one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you want. As an example, some new service provider may have exceptional 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 Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account from our company and you want to move either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it is going to take you literally simply 2 clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.