Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that particular domain address. The site and the email hosting are usually considered to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. For example, some new provider might have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name 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 whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain is going to 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 are going to see the needed website 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 want to switch either your site or your e-mails to a different company, it's going to take you literally just two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it won't 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 higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which 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 editing the A or MX records for any of your domains or subdomains is very easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are handled through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you may click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record will be as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any issues if you want to switch your site or e-mails to an alternative provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you could also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.