Each registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a certain website hosting company. This way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you type a domain address in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of another provider provided 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 means that you may have your site and your emails with two different providers if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account from our company and you would like to move either your website or your e-mails to an alternative provider, it will take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans we provide, you are going to have total 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 of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record takes just a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain name to the other service provider 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 modify 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 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.