When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the email hosting are typically regarded as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an example, some new company might have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may 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 emails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a website or send an email - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain 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 are going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a Linux shared hosting through our company, you'll be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Assuming that a particular domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to any other company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain the slightest bit. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with simply a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you'll have full 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name 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 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.