When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain name. The website and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an illustration, some new service provider might have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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 are going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting through us, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will even allow you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even 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

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any one of your domains or subdomains is extremely easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed using our in-house built Hepsia CP, which includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you won't experience any issues if you wish to switch your website or emails to some other provider while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you may also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.