Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that particular domain name. The site and the email hosting are generally regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an illustration, some new service provider could have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every hosting we offer, will enable you to view, change and create A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an illustration, you want to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domains 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 offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes only a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue 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're changing 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 one.