Every single registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular website hosting company. This way, you've got both your website and your e-mails handled by the exact same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you enter a domain in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of another provider provided 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 could have your site and your emails with 2 different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account through our company and you want to point either your website or your e-mails to a different provider, it's going to take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or create is not going to take more than several hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages that we provide, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain name here, while you modify 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 standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.