When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically the moment 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 address where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new provider may have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails 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 provider whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 are going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

With a website hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly using our sophisticated Hepsia hosting CP. Modifying the default records takes two clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so even if you have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any issues. We've got an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you wish to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the default 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you will have full control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated packages we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes simply a few mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing 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 one.