Every single registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a certain website hosting provider. In this way, you've got both your site and your e-mails handled 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 reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, whenever you enter a domain name in your browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be sent to the servers of another company in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails means you may have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting plan that we provide, will allow you to view, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of another service provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You may also 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's going to contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

With the semi-dedicated plans we offer, you're going to have total 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 using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires as little as a few mouse clicks. If you decide to change your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and direct your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address 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 standard 2 that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.