When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be 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 service provider might have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an email - either way, the service 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're 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 through our company and you want to point either your website or your emails to an alternative service provider, it's going to take you literally just two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with 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 decide to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could 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 every record that you change or create won't take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to view the A and MX records for each of the domains or subdomains in your account and if needed, to update any of them or set up new ones. Managing these records is incredibly easy because all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so editing a record is as simple as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes only a few more clicks and in case you experience any troubles, you can check out our educational videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to give you total control of all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are pointing your e-mails to a different company and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.