Every registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a particular hosting provider. This way, you have got both your site and your e-mails handled by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain name in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of a different 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 emails means you could have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting that we provide, will allow you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain name or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, as an illustration, you would like to use the email services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, 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'll contact the next one. Through our advanced tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers that we offer, you will have full control over the records of all domains and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the required 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 can also keep the main domain here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.