Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service 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, which “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are typically considered to be one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you want. For instance, some new service provider could have excellent 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 Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain is going to 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting we offer you, allows you to view, modify and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an example, you wish to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domains and subdomains easily even when you have no previous experience with such matters.