When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, 3 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, that “tells” the domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are often thought to be 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 wish. For example, some new company might have fantastic uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name is going to 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 will see the needed site or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting from us, you're going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domain names. So long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change certain records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to any other service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do that with just a couple of clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers we offer, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing 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.