Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new company can have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain 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 whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in either case, the provider 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 correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed site or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a Linux cloud hosting package through us, you will be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails directed to any other company if you wish to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated 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 address in any way. If you choose to use the email services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated packages we provide, you're going to have complete 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 every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes only a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while 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. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.