Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that particular domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you want. As an example, some new company could have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails 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 second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account through our company and you would like to point either your site or your e-mails to another provider, it will take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or create is not going to take more than a few hours and if required, 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're going to 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 Control Panel and modifying any record takes simply a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you change 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 one.