Every single registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular hosting company. That way, you have both your website and your emails handled by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be directed to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you could have your site and your e-mails with two different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account through our company and you would like to switch either your website or your emails to a different company, it will take you literally only two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll 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 create more MX records than the standard two, it is not going to take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, 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 is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
With the semi-dedicated servers which we offer, you'll have full control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains which you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires as little as a couple of clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required 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 could also keep the main domain name here, while you edit the A record of only one of its subdomains. In case you are modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two that we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for every single one.