Whenever 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, three records are created automatically as soon as 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 reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that particular Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually considered to be one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having independent records for them will allow you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an illustration, some new service provider might have outstanding uptime for your site, but you might not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain name to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you could 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 company whose name servers are used for the domain address is going to 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 are going to see the needed website or your email will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a Linux website hosting package through our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other service provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool will even enable you to have a domain address 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 decide to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated packages which we provide, you're 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 each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires simply a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.