Any time you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are created automatically when the Internet 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 website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that handles the e-mails for that specific domain name. The website and the e-mail hosting are often perceived as one thing, while they are in fact two different services. Having independent records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For example, some new company might have fantastic uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the first and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the company whose name servers are used for the domain 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 email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared plan from us, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change specific records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to any other company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will allow you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to view the A and MX records for each of the domains or subdomains in your account and if necessary, to change any of them or set up new ones. Managing these records is incredibly easy as all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as simple as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and in case you experience any troubles, you can check out our video tutorials on how to create A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with no previous experience, yet advanced enough to give you total control over all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your e-mails to a different service provider and they ask you to set up more than two different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.