When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically as soon as the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former 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 emails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically considered to be one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company could have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages 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 can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux shared hosting which we provide, will allow you to view, change and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, for instance, you would like to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every 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 if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing 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.