Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically when the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that specific domain address. The site and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new provider might have excellent uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using 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 companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux shared web hosting we offer, allows you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an illustration, 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 two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires as little as a few clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.