Custom MX and A Records

See what MX records and A records are, how they impact your web sites and the ways to alter them.

The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but a number of services that provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two individual services though in the general case they come together, so many people see them as one single service. In reality, each and every domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that deals with each specific service - the former is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that handles the emails for the domain. For instance, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Each time you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the web browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The reasoning behind employing separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your website hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every hosting which we provide, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, for example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domains and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.