Every single registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain address to the servers of a certain web hosting provider. This way, you've got both your website and your emails managed by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there is a variety of other records, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you enter a domain address in your browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having different records for the site and the emails means that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account through our company and you wish to direct either your website or your e-mails to another provider, it's going to take you literally simply two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated plans we offer, you are going to have 100 % 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 using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires just a few mouse clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and point your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default 2 we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.