Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically perceived as one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new company may have exceptional 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 domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux cloud hosting which we provide, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, as an illustration, you wish to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even 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 will contact the next one. Using our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address 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 standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.