When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain address 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 typically considered to be one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an example, some new service provider can have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing 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 companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an e-mail - 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've set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you'll see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting package from us, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily using our sophisticated Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records takes 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes only a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any complications. We have an in depth help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have total control over your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing 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 and every one.