When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment the domain 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 deals with the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually regarded as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an example, some new provider may have exceptional uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages 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 could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux shared hosting package we offer, will allow you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain name or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated packages which we provide, you're going to have complete 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 every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes only a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address 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 default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.