When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually considered to be one thing, while they're in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an illustration, some new service provider may have superb uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you wish to direct either your site or your emails to a different provider, it's going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do this. 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 change 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 standard 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or create won't take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you will have full control over the records of all domain addresses 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 modifying any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.