When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically when the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally regarded as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. For example, some new provider may have fantastic uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the company 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 e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you wish to move either your website or your emails to a different provider, it will take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will 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 wish to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it's not going to 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 won't take more than several hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated plans which we offer, you are going to have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires just a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.