When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular company. On their end, three records are set up automatically as soon as the domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. For instance, some new service provider can have exceptional 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 first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a website or send an email - in any case, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain will 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 is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a specific domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails pointed to any other provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even allow you to have a domain name 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 name the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with just a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and changing the A or MX records for each of your domain addresses or subdomains is extremely easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are maintained through our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so in case you have never dealt with such matters before, you simply won't experience any problems if you want to switch your website or emails to a different company while keeping the second service with our company. If required, you can also create additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.