When you add a domain name as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to point it to that particular provider. On their end, three records are created 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 domain name where its site is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they reveal the server that handles the e-mails for that specific Internet domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are typically thought to be one thing, when they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will enable you to have them with different companies if you'd like. For instance, some new company can have excellent uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by employing an A record to point the domain address to the former and MX records to have the emails with the latter, you could 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 company whose name servers are used for the domain name 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 site or your e-mail will be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
If you have a Linux web hosting package from us, you're going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Assuming that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify specific records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to another company if you want to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain at all. If you want to use the email services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a few clicks within 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 Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages we provide, you'll have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you modify 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 standard two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.