When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the email hosting are often perceived as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new provider may have outstanding uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain 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'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you would like to switch either your website or your e-mails to a different service provider, it'll take you literally simply two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to 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 want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You may also 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 each record that you modify or set up won't take more than several hours and if required, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we offer, you're going to have total 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 via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes only a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required 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 here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.