Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service 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 Internet domain where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an illustration, some new company can have superb uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you will get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an email - either way, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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 will see the needed site or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
With a shared hosting package from us, you'll be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily via our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Modifying the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so although you may have never dealt with such matters, you'll not experience any difficulties. We've got an extensive help section that will make things even easier. If you want to change your email provider and you have to create a number of MX records in addition to the standard two, you can choose their priority i.e. which record is going to deal with your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you'll have total control of your domain addresses and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you will have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want 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, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you edit 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 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.