Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain name. The website and the email hosting are generally considered to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you want. As an illustration, some new provider can have fantastic uptime for your website, 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 former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct 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 Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you want to move either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it will take you literally simply two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create won't take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any one of your domain names or subdomains is really easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are handled via our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you may click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record will be as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any problems if you want to point your site or emails to another service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.