When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the domain address 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new company may have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails 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 could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 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 would like to move either your website or your emails to another company, it will take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to 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 set up more MX records than the default two, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you change or create isn't going to take more than a few 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 Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages which we provide, you're going to 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes simply a few clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.