Every registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a specific website hosting company. That way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server deals with the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time you enter a domain in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of a different service provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you may have your site and your emails with 2 different providers if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux cloud web hosting which we offer, will enable you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as easy if, for example, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our sophisticated tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domain names and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and changing the A or MX records for any of your domain addresses or subdomains is very easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. The accounts are maintained using our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel, which features a section committed to the DNS records of your domains. 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. Editing any record will be as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even if you have never dealt with such matters before, you simply won't experience any problems if you choose to point your website or e-mails to some other service provider while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you could also set up additional MX records and set a specific priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.