Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when the Internet domain 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you would like. For instance, some new service provider can have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet 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 website or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you wish to point either your website or your emails to another provider, it is going to take you literally just two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and modify 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 two, it's not going to take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up won't take more than a few hours and if needed, 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 changed or deleted.