Whenever 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, 3 records are created automatically right after the Internet domain is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain name where its site 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 usually regarded as one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you would like. As an example, some new company may have fantastic uptime for your website, 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 will get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - either way, the 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'll see the needed website or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting from our company, you will be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails directed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain the slightest bit. If you decide to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated packages which we offer, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domains 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 CP and editing any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.