When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically when the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new provider might have superb uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
With a cloud website hosting package from our company, you're going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily via our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any complications. We've got a large help section that will make things even easier. If you wish to switch your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have full control over your domain names and subdomains and you'll be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.