Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that specific company. On their end, three 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 indicate the server that manages the e-mails for that particular domain. The website and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, while they're actually two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you would like. For instance, some new provider could have exceptional uptime for your website, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by using an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you want to open a site or send an e-mail - either way, 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've set records different from their own, the right web/mail server will then be contacted and you will see the needed website or your email is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a Linux shared web hosting from our company, you'll be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a given domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify certain records through our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails directed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also 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 Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company 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 change 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 default 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.