Every single registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a particular website hosting provider. This way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the exact same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, when you enter a domain in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be directed to the servers of another service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having independent records for the site and the emails means that you may have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to move either your website or your e-mails to another provider, it'll take you literally simply two clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can even 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 each record that you modify or create is not going to take more than a few hours and if required, 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 modified or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is really easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are managed by using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Changing any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any issues if you decide to move your site or e-mails to an alternative provider while keeping the second service with our company. When required, you can also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.