Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new company could have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing 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 wish to open a website or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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're 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 want to move either your website or your e-mails to another company, it'll take you literally simply 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains 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 2, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create is not going to take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated hosting packages that we offer, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes only a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.