Every registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular hosting company. In this way, you have both your site and your emails handled by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, like A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you type a domain in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of a different provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails means that you could have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a Linux cloud website hosting through our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domains. So long as a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to change particular records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to another provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our leading-edge tool is going to enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain the slightest bit. If you decide to use the email services of a different 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 Control Panel. You may also set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domains and subdomains that you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record takes just a few mouse clicks. If you want to switch your web or e-mail hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain name to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still carry on using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're editing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard 2 we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every one.