When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are set up automatically right after 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 address where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that manages the emails for that particular domain address. The website and the email hosting are often perceived as one thing, when they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an illustration, some new service provider can have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by employing 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 companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain name will 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're going to see the needed site or your e-mail will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared service that we provide, will enable you to view, change and set up A and MX records for every domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, as an example, you would like to use the email services of another company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you will be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated services that we offer, you will have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes only a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other service provider 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 edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying 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.