Every single registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a particular hosting provider. That way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, such as A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you enter a domain in your browser, your request is directed 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 company in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having independent records for the site and the emails means that you could have your website and your emails with two different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting from our company, you'll be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your domains. Assuming that a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to change certain records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to any other service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool is going to allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do that with just a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated services we offer, you are going to have total control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains 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 CP and editing any record takes as little as a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.