When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically when the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain address. The site and the e-mail hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you would like. For instance, some new company may have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every hosting package we provide, will permit you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, as an example, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our advanced tool, you are going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires 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 to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.