Whenever 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, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain name. The website and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For example, some new company might have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting package from our company, you'll be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily by using our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any issues. We also have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you'd like to change your e-mail provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to manage your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you're going to have total control over your domain names and subdomains and you'll be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.