Every registered domain has at least two Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain name to the servers of a particular hosting company. This way, you've got both your site and your e-mails handled by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, such as A and MX. The first one shows which server deals with the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you enter a domain in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of another service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails suggests that you could have your site and your e-mails with two different providers if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every web hosting service that we offer, will enable you to view, change and create A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally simple if, for example, you would like to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even if you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the semi-dedicated hosting services that we provide, you will have 100 % 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 one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and changing any record requires as little as a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.