Each registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain address to the servers of a specific website hosting company. This way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, for instance A and MX. The former reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, whenever you type a domain address in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having different records for the site and the e-mails means that you may have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account through our company and you want to point either your website or your e-mails to an alternative service provider, it is going to take you literally simply 2 mouse clicks to do so. 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 modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it's not going to 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 given MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated plans, will enable you to view the A and MX records for any of the domains or subdomains in your account and if needed, to edit any of them or create new ones. Controlling these records is very easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes just a few more clicks and if you experience any problems, you can check out our educational videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to provide you with complete control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're moving your e-mails to a different service provider and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.