Every registered domain 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 certain website hosting provider. In this way, you have got both your site and your e-mails managed by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, such as A and MX. The first one reveals which server handles the website 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). As an illustration, any time you enter a domain name in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of a different company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you can have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

With a cloud website hosting package from our company, you are going to be able to create or change the A and MX records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly using our state-of-the-art Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Editing the default records will take 2 clicks and the creation of a new record takes just a couple of more clicks, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters, you will not encounter any issues. We also have an extensive help section that makes things even easier. If you'd like to change your email provider and you have to create several MX records in addition to the default two, you may choose their priority i.e. which record will deal with your e-mails first when someone sends you a message. Usually the new provider is going to tell you what these values should be. With our shared plans, you are going to have full control over your domain names and subdomains and you're going to be able to handle their A and MX records very easily and at any time.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated servers which we provide, you're going to have complete control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record requires simply a few mouse clicks. If you want to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, as you still carry on 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. If you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.