When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are set up automatically the moment the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider can have exceptional uptime for your site, but you might 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 former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to 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'll see the needed site or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you would like to point either your website or your emails to a different company, it's going to take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it will not take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you change or create is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated packages which we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires only a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.