Any time you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific provider. On their end, three records are created automatically right after 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 site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually considered 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 companies if you would like. As an illustration, some new company may have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, 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 any case, 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've 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 e-mail is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting through our company, you're going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a particular domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change certain records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you want to use the email services of another provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any one of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan from us. The accounts are maintained by using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any issues if you want to switch your website or emails to a different service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When needed, you may also create additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.