Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically right after 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 indicate the server that handles the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an illustration, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain 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 whenever you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in either 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've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you would like to switch either your site or your e-mails to another company, it is going to take you literally just two clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll 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 standard 2, it will not 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 given MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create will not 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's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is incredibly easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through us. The accounts are maintained through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any troubles if you wish to switch your site or emails to an alternative company while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the instructions of the new provider.