Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically as soon as the domain 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. The website and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. For instance, some new provider could have outstanding 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 domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every website hosting that we offer you, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, for instance, you wish to use the email services of another provider 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 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. With our innovative tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even when you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you're going to have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain 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 default 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.