When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, three records are created automatically right after the Internet 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the e-mails for that particular domain. The site and the email hosting are generally regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you wish. As an example, some new provider may have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - either way, the provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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'll see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting from our company, you're going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a given domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to any other provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool is going to allow you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you'll have total 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 every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes just a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.