When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you would like. For instance, some new provider might have exceptional uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can 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 service 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're going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a Linux website hosting from us, you're going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge 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 address in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we offer, you will have complete 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 each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.