Custom MX and A Records

Find out about MX records and A records and see exactly where they sit inside the DNS system.

When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically as soon as the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one 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 handles the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you want. For instance, some new service provider might have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails 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 second, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every cloud hosting that we offer, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, for example, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Additionally you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to handle the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.