Each registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a particular website hosting provider. This way, you have got both your website and your emails handled 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, such as A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you enter a domain name in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of a different provider if 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 e-mails suggests that you could have your site and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a Linux shared plan through us, you are going to be able to see, set up and change any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify certain records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails pointed to another company if you would like to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool is going to allow you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you want to use the e-mail services of another company and they want you to create more than two MX records, you can easily do this with just a couple of clicks in the DNS Records section of your CP. You can also set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated plans we provide, you're going to have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes simply a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can change the necessary record and point your domain name to the other company for one of the services, while you still keep using the other one through us. You can also keep the main domain address here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.