Every registered domain has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a certain web hosting provider. This way, you have both your site and your e-mails managed by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The former shows which server manages the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server handles 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 company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of a different service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having different records for the site and the e-mails means that you may have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you wish to point either your website or your emails to a different provider, it is going to take you literally just two clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change 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 default two, it's not going to take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every 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 is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for each of your domain addresses or subdomains is really easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are maintained via 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 could 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 when you have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any difficulties if you want to direct your website or e-mails to another company while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you could also create additional MX records and set a certain priority based on the recommendations of the new provider.