Any time 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, 3 records are set up automatically when 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 Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the email hosting are typically regarded as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an illustration, some new service provider might have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. 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've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a Linux web hosting through our company, you'll be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a particular domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails directed to another provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you choose to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with just a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer, you're going to have full 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 each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on 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. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.