Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. 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, which “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are often considered to be one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you would like. For instance, some new service provider may have fantastic uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, 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've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux hosting which we offer you, will permit you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, for example, you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, 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 will contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires just a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.