Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you would like. For instance, some new service provider may have superb uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to 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 are going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting plan that we offer, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, as an illustration, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to 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 advanced tool, you will be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also 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 standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.