When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are generally considered to be one thing, when they are actually two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you want. As an example, some new company may have outstanding uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - 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 have set records different from their own, the right 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 Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting plan that we offer you, will allow you to view, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, for example, you would like to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, 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 is going to contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer, you're going to have full 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name here, while you modify 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 standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.