Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically the moment 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 domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally perceived as one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For instance, some new service provider may have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in any case, the 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting plan through our company, you will be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change particular records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will permit you to have a domain 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 at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with simply a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated plans that we offer, 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 via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires just a few clicks. If you decide 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, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.