Each registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a certain website hosting company. This way, you've got both your website and your emails handled by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are lots of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, any time you enter a domain in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be sent to the servers of a different provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having different records for the website and the emails means that you can have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux shared hosting package we offer, will permit you to see, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you'll be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as simple if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. Additionally you can set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, 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'll contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.