Each registered domain has at least 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 hosting company. That way, you have both your website and your emails handled by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain name in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of another provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you'd like.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every shared website hosting which we provide, will permit you to view, change and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain within your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally easy if, for instance, you want to use the email services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. With our advanced tool, you'll be able to handle the records of your domain addresses and subdomains easily even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.