MX And A Records

The term “hosting” doesn't describe a particular service, but several services that offer numerous functions to a domain name. Having a site and e-mails, for instance, are two separate services despite the fact that in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. Actually, each and every domain name has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain name is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record would be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one service provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account through our company and you wish to move either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it'll take you literally only two clicks to do this. 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'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it is not going to take more than a couple of 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 particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create will not take more than several hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, will permit you to view the A and MX records for any of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if needed, to change any of them or set up new ones. Controlling these records is very easy since all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so modifying a record is as simple 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 difficulties, you can check out our instructional videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by individuals with no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to provide you with complete control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are pointing your e-mails to a different provider and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.