Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific domain. The site and the email hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an illustration, some new company might have superb uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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 site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account from our company and you wish to switch either your site or your e-mails to another provider, it will take you literally just 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may 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 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 shows how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed through our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you may click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any issues if you choose to move your site or emails to another company while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the instructions of the new provider.