Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. 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 name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the emails for that specific domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you would like. For instance, some new company might have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in any case, the service 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 from our company and you would like to move either your site or your e-mails to a different company, it will take you literally just 2 mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains 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 wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or set up 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 shows how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, you will have complete 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 CP and editing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.