Each registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain address to the servers of a specific web hosting provider. That way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of another service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting package that we offer, will permit you to see, change and set up A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to see a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an illustration, you wish to use the email services of another provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it'll contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you will be able to control the records of your domain names and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.