Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically regarded as one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you want. As an example, some new service provider can have excellent uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every hosting we offer, will enable you to see, change and create A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, 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's going to contact the next one. Through our innovative tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may 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 are going to have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which 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 requires only a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.