Every registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a particular website hosting provider. That way, you've got both your website and your emails managed by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are a number of other records, such as A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be sent to the servers of a different service provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having independent records for the site and the e-mails suggests that you could have your website and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux shared hosting which we provide, will enable you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, for example, you wish to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our innovative tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you'll have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue 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 two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.