When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are usually considered to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. As an illustration, some new company might have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to 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 are going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting package we offer you, will enable you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, as an example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case 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 handle the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we provide, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.