Every single registered domain name has a minimum of two 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 website hosting provider. This way, you have got both your website and your e-mails managed by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server manages the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you type a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be directed to the servers of a different service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the website and the emails suggests that you could have your site and your emails with two different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your website or your e-mails to an alternative company, it is going to take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides 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 decide to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it's not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated packages we provide, you will have total 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 every one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still continue 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. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.