Every single registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a specific web hosting company. That way, you've got both your site and your e-mails managed by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, such as A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, whenever you enter a domain address in your browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you could be directed to the servers of another company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails means you could have your site and your e-mails with two different providers if you would like.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a Linux cloud web hosting package from our company, you will be able to view, create and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Provided that a particular domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify certain records through our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails directed to any other company if you want to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain in any way. If you decide to use the e-mail services of another service provider and they want you to set up more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks in the DNS Records section of your Control Panel. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
With the semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, you're going to have complete control over the records of all domain names and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records every one of them has from the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting CP and editing any record requires just a few clicks. If you choose to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can edit the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, while you still carry on using the other one through us. You could also keep the main domain here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. If you're modifying the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the standard two we have, you could create them with ease and set a different priority for each and every one.