Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new company might have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting through our company, you'll be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. Provided that a given domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify specific records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool is going to permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you decide to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with simply a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.