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Why are there two (or more) A records for my website?

Your website is served by multiple servers, not just one.

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If you are coming from the VPS or shared hosting world you might seem its strange that your Pressidium website has two (or even more) A records instead of one.Β 

This is so because your website is not hosted on just one server, but on a highly-available cluster of servers. Your website will work if you accidentally put only one (or some) of the IPs, but will lose its load-balancing and fail-over ability. It is strongly recommended to always add all A (or AAAA) DNS records provided by our "Add Domain" process when setting up your website's domains (alternatively opt to use a CNAME, if applicable).

Important: Losing load-balancing and fail-over ability due to DNS misconfiguration impacts our availability design, and can cause downtime.
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