When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the 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 indicate the server that manages the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new company can have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 are going to see the needed website or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to switch either your website or your emails to a different provider, it will take you literally simply 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change 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 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 higher the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up won't take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domain names or subdomains is very easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed by using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on any one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you simply won't encounter any difficulties if you choose to direct your website or e-mails to another service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you may also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the instructions of the new provider.