Every registered domain name has no less than 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 particular web hosting provider. That way, you have got both your website and your e-mails managed by the 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 former reveals which server manages the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, whenever you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of another company 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 emails suggests that you can have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux shared package that we offer you, will enable you to view, modify and create A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you'll be able to see a list of all hosts inside the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update is not going to take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is just as easy if, as an example, you want to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2. You can also set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it is going to contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no previous experience with such matters.