Each registered domain has a minimum of 2 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 particular website hosting provider. This way, you've got both your website and your e-mails managed by the very 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 reveals which server manages the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, whenever you type a domain name in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of a different service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the website and the emails suggests that you could have your website and your e-mails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, that comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting that we provide, will allow you to view, modify and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain within your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an example, you would like to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even when you have no prior experience with such matters.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you are going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and modifying any record requires only a few clicks. If you choose to change your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain address to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You may also keep the main domain address here, while you edit 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 two that we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.