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

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting we provide, will allow you to see, change and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you want to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, 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. With our sophisticated tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may 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 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 of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes only a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.