Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. 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, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain address. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an example, some new service provider may have superb uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. 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 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 website or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux web hosting that we offer you, allows you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for every single 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 is going to contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires only a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.