Every single registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a specific hosting provider. In this way, you have got both your website and your emails handled by the exact same provider. 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 first one reveals which server handles the site for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you type a domain in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be sent to the servers of another provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the website and the emails means you could have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting account from our company and you want to direct either your website or your e-mails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally only 2 mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up will not take more than several hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will enable you to see the A and MX records for every one of the domain names or subdomains in your account and if needed, to edit any of them or set up new ones. Managing these records is quite easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so updating a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes just a couple of more clicks and in case you experience any issues, you can check out our instructional videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet sophisticated enough to give you full control over all records and to allow you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are switching your e-mails to a different company and they ask you to create more than 2 different MX records, you can select the priority of each one.