Every single registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a specific web hosting company. This way, you have got both your website and your e-mails handled by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server handles 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 emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time 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 name uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of another provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails means you can have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
With a hosting plan from our company, you are going to be able to create or modify the A and MX records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily by using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take two clicks and the creation of a new record requires just a couple of more clicks, so in case you have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any issues. We've got an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you would like to change your email provider and you have to set up several MX records in addition to the standard two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record is going to handle your emails first when someone sends you a message. Normally the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you're going to have 100 % control over your domains and subdomains and you're going to be able to manage their A and MX records easily and at any time.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you'll have 100 % 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 editing any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.