When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For instance, some new service provider can have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former 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 site or send an e-mail - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account through our company and you wish to switch either your website or your emails to another company, it's going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up isn't going to 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 packages which we provide, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which 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 CP and changing any record requires only a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.