Every registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a particular website hosting company. In this way, you have got both your website and your e-mails managed by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server handles the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, whenever you enter a domain in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of another provider 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 could have your website and your emails with two different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account with our company and you would like to switch either your site or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it'll take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you modify or create is not going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will stay active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated service which we provide, you're going to have 100 % 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 one of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes just a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name 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 two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.