When 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, 3 records are created automatically as soon as the domain address 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 reveal the server that handles the emails for that specific domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically regarded as one thing, while they are actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you'd like. For instance, some new company may have excellent uptime for your website, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing 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 providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a site or send an e-mail - in either case, the 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 correct web/mail server will then be contacted and you are going to see the needed site or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting from our company, you will be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails pointed to another company if you wish to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you choose to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with just a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers we offer, you are going to have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains 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 CP and editing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name 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 default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.