Every registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a particular hosting provider. That way, you've got both your website and your emails handled by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The first one shows which server manages the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is sent 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 a different company 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 means you could have your website and your e-mails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a Linux shared package through our company, you will be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change particular records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other company if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will enable you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address the slightest bit. If you choose to use the email services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can even set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated packages which we provide, you're going to have total 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 of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required 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. You may also 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 standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.