Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are set up 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 indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain name. The website and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an illustration, some new company may have superb uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails 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 either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to 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 point either your website or your emails to another company, it'll take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with 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 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 create more MX records than the standard two, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or create won't take more than several hours and if required, 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

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to see the A and MX records for each of the domain addresses or subdomains in your account and if needed, to change any of them or create new ones. Controlling these records is incredibly easy since all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so editing a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and if you experience any problems, you can check out our video tutorials on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet advanced enough to provide you with full control over all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are moving your e-mails to a different provider and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you may choose the priority of each one.