Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically as soon as the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you want. As an example, some new provider could have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 are going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a Linux shared website hosting package from our company, you will be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails directed to any other provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will even permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain in any way. If you choose to use the email services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is really easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are maintained via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you will not encounter any issues if you decide to direct your website or emails to another provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you could also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.