Every single registered domain name has no less than 2 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 web hosting company. In this way, you've got both your site and your emails managed by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain address in your browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may 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. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your emails with 2 different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a Linux shared web hosting package from us, you are going to be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Provided that a particular domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify certain records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails directed to another company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you choose to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with simply a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated packages that we offer, you are going to have complete 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 each of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.