Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created 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 name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. For instance, some new company could have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain is going to 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're going to see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you wish to move either your website or your emails to another company, it's going to take you literally just 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names 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 choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it will not take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up isn't going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.