Every registered domain has at least two Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a particular hosting company. In this way, you have both your website and your emails handled by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The first one shows which server handles the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you enter a domain in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will 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 Internet domain. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails suggests that you can have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you would like to move either your website or your emails to an alternative service provider, it will take you literally just two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and edit 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 default 2, it will not 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 particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will remain active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated services which we provide, you are going to have total 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 one of them has via the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes as little as a couple of mouse clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and direct your domain to the other service provider for one of the services, as you still continue using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you change the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you are changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.