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, three records are created 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, that “tells” the domain name where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that deals with the emails for that particular Internet domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically considered to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an illustration, some new service provider may have excellent uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the e-mails 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 any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain 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 site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting package from our company, you will be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domains and subdomains easily by using our advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the setup of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any problems. We've got an in depth help section that'll make things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when somebody sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you're going to have complete control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you are going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans we provide, you'll have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires only a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.