Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as 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 manages the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the email hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. For instance, some new service provider can have superb 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 former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an email - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you would like to point either your website or your emails to an alternative company, it'll take you literally just 2 mouse 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'll be able to see and change 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 standard two, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up won't take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, 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 each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes only a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address 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 address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.