Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are created 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 Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that particular domain address. The site and the email hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new company might have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service 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 will see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you wish to direct either your site or your emails to a different service provider, it is going to take you literally just two clicks to do so. 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're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it won't 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 bigger the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up isn't going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.