Each registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular web hosting company. This way, you have got both your website and your e-mails handled by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, for example A and MX. The former shows which server deals with 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). For instance, any time you type a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be directed 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 that you could have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a Linux website hosting through us, you will be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change specific records using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, you'll have total control over the records of all domains and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If 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 one.