When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are often regarded as one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you would like. As an example, some new company could have fantastic 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 to the former and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. 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 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'll see the needed website or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a Linux hosting package from our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change particular records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails directed to another company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a few mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we offer, you will have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains that 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 CP and modifying any record takes just a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.