When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “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 domain. The website and the email hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you would like. For example, some new company may have superb 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 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 domain 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 Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared hosting package which we offer, will permit you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domains 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 packages which 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're 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 each one.