When you add a domain as hosted in some account, you usually set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific company. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain address is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the Internet domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that specific domain. The website and the email hosting are usually considered to be one thing, when they're in fact two different services. Having different records for them will enable you to have them with different providers if you want. As an illustration, some new company might have excellent uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your emails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both companies. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an email - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain will be contacted to retrieve the A and MX records and if you've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you're going to see the needed site or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
With a cloud web hosting package from us, you are going to be able to set up or change the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly by using our innovative Hepsia hosting CP. Changing the default records will take two clicks and the setup of a new record requires only a few more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you won't experience any troubles. We have an in depth help section that will make things even easier. If you would like to switch your e-mail provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard 2, you can select their priority i.e. which record will manage your emails first when somebody sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values ought to be. With our shared plans, you will have complete control over your domains and subdomains and you will be able to manage their A and MX records effortlessly and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you'll have total control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are editing 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 every single one.