When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment 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 name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an example, some new company could have superb uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when 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 will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux shared hosting we offer, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, for example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your e-mails 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. Through our innovative tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly 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 we provide, you are going to have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires just a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain 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 default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.