Each registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a certain hosting provider. That way, you've got both your site and your e-mails managed by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one reveals which server handles the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, any time you type a domain name in your 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 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. Having different records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you can have your site and your emails with two different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every shared website hosting which we offer you, will permit you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you're going to have total 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 every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.