When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically when the Internet domain 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new company might have superb uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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 Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account through our company and you want to switch either your site or your e-mails to another provider, it is going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or create is not going to take more than several hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.