Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, three records are set up automatically as soon as the domain address 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 reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. For example, some new service provider might have fantastic uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain 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 whenever you want to open a website 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'll see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
With a shared hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly through our sophisticated Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any difficulties. We have a large help section that makes things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values need to be. With our shared plans, you'll have full control over your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.