Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. For instance, some new provider may have fantastic uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails 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 second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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'll see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting package we offer, will allow you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll 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 few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, for example, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every 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 innovative tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease 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 packages that we offer, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domains 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 CP and modifying any record requires just a few clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change 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 two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.