Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up 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, that “tells” the domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that handles the emails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually thought to be one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having different records for them will permit you to have them with different companies if you'd like. As an illustration, some new provider can have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mail messages from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain to the first and MX records to have the emails with the second, you can get the best of both providers. These records are checked whenever you want 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 correct 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 Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud service through our company, you'll be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify specific records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain the slightest bit. If you want to use the email services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than two 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 each 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 Linux semi-dedicated servers, allows you to view the A and MX records for any of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if necessary, to update any of them or create new ones. Controlling these records is quite easy since all domains/subdomains will be listed alphabetically, so editing 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 if you experience any issues, you can check out our educational videos on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet advanced enough to offer you full control of all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your emails to a different service provider and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.