When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain name. The site and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an example, some new provider can have outstanding uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first 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 either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to 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 email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting through us, you will be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change specific records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails pointed to another service provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even permit you to have a domain name 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 the slightest bit. If you want to use the e-mail services of another provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you acquire a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are handled through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter will be listed alphabetically and you can click on any of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not experience any problems if you decide to move your site or e-mails to another service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.