Each registered domain has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a specific website hosting company. That way, you have got both your site and your e-mails handled by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are a number of other records, like A and MX. The former shows which server manages the site for a given domain address 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 illustration, when you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be sent to the servers of another company if 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 emails means you can have your website and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting service that we offer you, allows you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is just as simple if, for instance, you wish to use the e-mail services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you are going to be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even when you have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated services which 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 every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires just a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the necessary record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.