Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. As an example, some new service provider may have fantastic uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet 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 is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account through our company and you wish to point either your site or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it'll take you literally just 2 clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and change 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 default two, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You could also 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 create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.