Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the domain 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 indicate the server that manages the emails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new service provider may have excellent uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain will 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 are going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud package through us, you're going to be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you decide to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do this with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.