Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically as soon as the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain address. The site and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new company might have excellent uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - in any 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've set records different from their own, the correct 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 Shared Hosting
With a shared hosting plan from us, you'll be able to set up or modify the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly via our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Changing the default records takes two clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any troubles. We've got an extensive help section that'll make things even easier. If you want to switch your e-mail provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default 2, you can pick their priority i.e. which record will manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you're going to have 100 % control over your domain addresses and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records very easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which 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 Control Panel and modifying any record requires just a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and direct your domain 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 name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If 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.