Every single registered domain has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a particular hosting provider. In this way, you have both your site and your e-mails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you enter a domain in your web browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of a different provider provided 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 emails means that you can have your website and your emails with two different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting through our company, you are going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a given domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails directed to any other provider if you'd like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing 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 service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a few clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. You can also set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, allows you to view the A and MX records for any of the domains or subdomains in your account and if needed, to change any of them or create new ones. Managing these records is very easy since all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so editing a record is as simple as entering it in a box and saving the change. Setting up a new one takes a few more clicks and in case you experience any difficulties, you can check out our instructional videos on how to create A and MX records. Our system is user-friendly enough to be used by individuals with no previous experience, yet advanced enough to give you 100 % control over all records and to permit you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you are pointing your e-mails to a different company and they ask you to create more than two different MX records, you can choose the priority of each one.