Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new company might have exceptional uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails 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 second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 are going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every shared website hosting that we provide, allows you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you wish to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every 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 if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires only a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain name 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 edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.