Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you normally set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, 3 records are set up automatically right after the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The first one is a numeric address, or IP address, that “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they show the server that manages the emails for that particular domain name. The website and the email hosting are often regarded as one thing, when they're in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will permit you to have them with different providers if you wish. As an example, some new service provider can have fantastic 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 Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the second, you could get the best of both providers. These records are checked when you wish to open a website or send an e-mail - in either case, the service provider whose name servers are used for the domain address 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're going to see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every cloud hosting we offer you, will allow you to see, change and create A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, for example, you would like to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed by using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you'll not encounter any issues if you decide to move your website or e-mails to a different service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also create additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the instructions of the new provider.