Each registered domain has at least 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a certain web hosting company. This way, you have got both your website and your emails managed by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of another service provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you can have your website and your emails with two different companies if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting through us, you will be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to change specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or emails directed to any other service provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will even permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different company and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with only a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires only 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, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.