Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, three 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 Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. For example, some new provider might have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address 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 want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the 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 will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you wish to point either your website or your e-mails to an alternative provider, it'll take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP provides 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 edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create will not take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it's changed or deleted.