When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three records are set up automatically when the domain name 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 show the server that manages the e-mails for that specific domain address. The site and the email hosting are often considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider could have outstanding 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 second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain will 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 e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting package that we provide, will enable you to see, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for example, you want to use the email services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even if you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages which 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 of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes just a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required 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 edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.