Every single registered domain name has at least 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a certain hosting company. This way, you have got both your website and your emails managed by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, like A and MX. The first one shows which server handles the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time you type a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of another provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you may have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through us, you will be able to see, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. As long as a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails pointed to another service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even permit you to have a domain hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying 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 a different provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do that with just a few clicks through the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated hosting plans we offer, you're going to have full control over the records of all domains 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 CP and editing any record requires simply a couple of clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. When 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 each and every one.