Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment 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 name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider may have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you wish to point either your website or your e-mails to another company, 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 domain names and subdomains will 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 wish to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it won't take more than a few clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or create will not take more than several hours and if required, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated services we offer, you'll 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 each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires only a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.