Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain 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 show the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the email hosting are generally regarded as one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an example, some new service provider could have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 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 cloud hosting account with our company and you want to switch either your website or your e-mails to another provider, it'll take you literally simply 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up won't take more than several hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.