When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that particular service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically when the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. As an illustration, some new provider can have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an email - in any 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'll see the needed site or your email will be delivered.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting plan from our company, you will be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease via our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting CP. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you'll not encounter any issues. We have an in depth help section that will make things even easier. If you want to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the default two, you can select their priority i.e. which record will deal with 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 will have 100 % control over your domains and subdomains and you will 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 which we offer, you are going to have 100 % 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 through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record takes only a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address 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 standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.