When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the emails for that specific domain. The site and the email hosting are typically perceived as one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider may have superb uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - either way, 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 correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting through us, you'll be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another company if you want to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will allow you to have a domain 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 the slightest bit. If you want to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans we provide, you will have full 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes just a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail 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 keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.