When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. 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 former 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 manages the e-mails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new service provider may have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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 website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from us, you will be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains with ease using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records takes 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any troubles. We have a comprehensive help section that will make things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.