Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain address. The website and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you would like. For instance, some new provider might have exceptional uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former 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 - either way, the company 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 right 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 Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you would like to direct either your website or your emails to another provider, it'll take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up won't take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated service we provide, you will have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which 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 CP and changing any record takes just a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.