Whenever you add a domain 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 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 specific domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are often regarded as one thing, while they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider might have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain 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 site or send an email - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain address will 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting service that we offer you, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, for instance, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, 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. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even when you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any one of your domain addresses or subdomains is very easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are maintained via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you could click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any issues if you decide to move your website or e-mails to a different provider while keeping the second service with our company. When needed, you could also create additional MX records and set a specific priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.