Each registered domain has at least 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a certain hosting company. This way, you've got both your website and your e-mails handled by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one reveals which server handles the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, when you type a domain name in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of another service provider in case 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 emails means that you may have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your website or your emails to an alternative company, it is going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or set up will not take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you are going to have total 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 from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes as little as a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point 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 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 default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.