When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain. The site and the email hosting are generally perceived as one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. For example, some new provider can have outstanding uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux web hosting package that we provide, allows you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You may also 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 in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even when you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated hosting packages that we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing 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 every single one.