Custom MX and A Records

Find what MX records and A records are, how they impact your sites and the ways to modify them.

Each registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a specific website hosting provider. This way, you have both your website and your emails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, when you enter a domain name in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may be directed to the servers of a different provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having independent records for the site and the emails means that you can have your site and your emails with two different providers if you would like.

: Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a Linux shared hosting package from us, you are going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a given domain name has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to another provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our advanced 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 Internet domain at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with just a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.