Each registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a specific web hosting company. In this way, you have got both your site and your emails managed by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one shows which server deals with the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you type a domain address in your browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be directed to the servers of a different company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every web hosting which we offer you, will allow you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for instance, you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you will have total 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 from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires only a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain 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 name here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.