Each registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a certain web hosting provider. That way, you've got both your website and your e-mails managed by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you type a domain name in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be sent to the servers of another company if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having different records for the site and the emails suggests that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux shared website hosting package which we offer, allows you to view, change and create A and MX records for every domain or subdomain inside your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a few mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, for instance, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. Also you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Through our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.