Custom MX and A Records

Discover what MX records and A records are, how they affect your websites and the ways to alter them.

Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically as soon as 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new provider might have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting through us, you are going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails pointed to another provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will even enable you to have a domain name 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 the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with only a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.