When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment 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 address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that specific domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you would like. For example, some new service provider could have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may 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 e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to 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 will see the needed site or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account through our company and you would like to move either your site or your e-mails to another provider, it is going to take you literally only two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide 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 couple of clicks either to add them. You may also 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 every record that you change or create is not going to take more than several hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is incredibly easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any difficulties if you decide to move your website or emails to another provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you can also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.