Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the email hosting are usually perceived as one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. For example, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account through our company and you would like to move either your website or your emails to another company, it will take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains 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 set up more MX records than the default two, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you change or set up will not take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.