Each registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain name to the servers of a certain web hosting provider. That way, you have both your site and your emails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, whenever you enter a domain address in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of a different provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means you can have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting package through us, you are going to be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a given domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or emails directed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our innovative tool will permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name the slightest bit. If you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you will 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 each of them has using the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and modifying any record requires just a couple of clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can change the required record and direct your domain address to the other service provider for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.