Each registered domain name has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a particular web hosting provider. In this way, you've got both your site and your emails managed 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 first one shows which server manages the website for a given domain name 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 type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company 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 address. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you could have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a Linux shared plan through us, you'll be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. As long as a given domain name has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will even allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you decide to use the email services of a different company and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do it with simply a couple of mouse clicks within 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 Servers
With the Linux semi-dedicated servers that we provide, you will have full control over the records of all domain names and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.