When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment the domain address 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically regarded as one thing, while they're in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For instance, some new provider can have excellent 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 former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting that we offer, will permit you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, as an example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated hosting we offer, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you choose to change 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, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you modify 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 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.