When you add a domain 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 set up automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are generally thought to be one thing, when they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you would like. For example, some new provider may have fantastic uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using 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 when you wish to open a website or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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're going to see the needed site 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 shared hosting service which we provide, will enable you to view, change and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to 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 mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, for example, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Through our sophisticated tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated hosting service we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If 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 each and every one.