Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically as soon as the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. For example, some new company might have outstanding uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages 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 latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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 are going to see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you wish to direct either your site or your emails to another service provider, it is going to take you literally only two clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or create will not take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages which we offer, you are going to have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires as little as a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.