Every registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a certain website hosting provider. This way, you have got both your site and your e-mails handled by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, like A and MX. The first one shows which server deals with the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when you type a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of another company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having independent records for the site and the emails means that you can have your site and your e-mails with two different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account through our company and you would like to point either your website or your e-mails to another company, it's going to take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will 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 e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you modify or set up will not take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, allows you to see the A and MX records for every one of the domains or subdomains in your account and if required, to update any of them or create new ones. Managing these records is incredibly easy because all domains/subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically, so editing a record is as easy as entering it in a box and saving the change. Creating a new one takes only a few more clicks and in case you experience any problems, you can check out our video tutorials on how to set up A and MX records. Our system is intuitive enough to be used by people with little or no previous experience, yet advanced enough to provide you with complete control over all records and to enable you to have different A records even for domain.com and www.domain.com. If you're pointing your e-mails to a different company and they ask you to set up more than 2 different MX records, you may choose the priority of each one.