Whenever you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific provider. On their end, 3 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 Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the e-mails for that particular domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new company might have exceptional uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you have set records different from their own, the correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting package from our company, you're going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily by using our innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records requires 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes just a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any difficulties. We've got a large help section that will make things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to set up a number of MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record will manage your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider will tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control over your domains and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans which we offer, you are going to have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which 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 Control Panel and modifying any record requires as little as a few clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you modify 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 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.