When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the Internet domain 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 reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you want. As an example, some new company could have exceptional uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting account with our company and you want to move either your site or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it'll take you literally just two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up will not take more than several hours and if required, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated services which we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.