Whenever you add a domain as hosted in some account, you typically set a pair of Name Servers to direct it to that specific service provider. On their end, three records are created automatically the moment the domain name is added - one A record and two MX records. The former is a numeric address, or IP address, which “tells” the domain where its website is, while the other two are alphanumeric and they indicate the server that deals with the emails for that particular domain. The site and the e-mail hosting are usually perceived as one thing, while they are in reality two different services. Having separate records for them will allow you to have them with different companies if you wish. For example, some new provider might have outstanding uptime for your site, but you may not want to switch your e-mails from your current host and by using an A record to point the Internet domain to the former and MX records to have the e-mails with the latter, you will get the best of both companies. These records are checked whenever you want to open a site or send an e-mail - in any case, the company whose name servers are used for the Internet domain is going to 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'll see the needed website or your e-mail is going to be delivered.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a Linux shared hosting through our company, you're going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records by using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other company if you wish to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will even enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace 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 another service provider and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with only a couple of clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every single 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're going to have 100 % 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 one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.