Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. For example, some new service provider can have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain 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 when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain 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 will see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
If you have a Linux hosting package through our company, you'll be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to allow you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with only a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.