Custom MX and A Records

See what MX records and A records are, how they influence your websites and how to change them.

Every registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a specific web hosting provider. This way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server handles the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you type a domain in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of a different service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails suggests that you may have your website and your e-mails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a Linux website hosting through us, you will be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to another company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool is going to 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 domain at all. If you want 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 simply a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.