Every registered domain has at least two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a specific website hosting provider. That way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one shows which server manages the site for a given domain 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 example, whenever you enter a domain name in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be sent 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 separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your e-mails with two different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your site or your emails to a different company, it will take you literally just two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will 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 email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it will not take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up 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, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and editing the A or MX records for any one of your domains or subdomains is very easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are managed via our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you may click on every one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you will not encounter any problems if you wish to point your website or e-mails to an alternative service provider while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority depending on the instructions of the new provider.