Every registered domain name has a minimum of 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a specific hosting company. That way, you have got both your website and your emails managed by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The former shows which server deals with the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when you type a domain in your browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be directed to the servers of another company if 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 suggests that you may have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting plan we provide, will allow you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is just as easy if, as an example, you want to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. Also you can set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you will be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even when you have no previous experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the Linux semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you'll have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires only a couple of clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain name here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.