Every single registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a particular hosting company. This way, you have both your site and your e-mails managed by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when you enter a domain name in your browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may 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 separate records for the website and the emails means you may have your site and your emails with 2 different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux shared web hosting that we offer you, will allow you to see, modify and create A and MX records for each domain or subdomain inside your account. Through the DNS Records section, you will be able to view a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, for instance, you would like to use the email services of another service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You may also set the priority for every MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your emails are delivered, the sending server will 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're going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even if you have no prior experience with such matters.