When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new company could have outstanding uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails 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 second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 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 direct either your site or your emails to a different company, it'll take you literally just 2 clicks to do so. 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 wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or set up won't take more than a few hours and if necessary, 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 is changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for each of your domain names or subdomains is very easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are maintained via our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any issues if you choose to move your site or e-mails to some other service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you can also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.