Each registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a specific website hosting company. That way, you have got both your site and your e-mails managed by the exact same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are a number of other records, for example A and MX. The former shows which server handles the site for a given domain 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). For example, whenever you type a domain name in your browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of a different service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means you can have your website and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting that we provide, will enable you to see, change and set up A and MX records for any Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Using the DNS Records section, you will be able to see a list of all hosts within the account in alphabetical order with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a couple of clicks. Creating new records is just as simple if, for example, you wish to use the e-mail services of a different service provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite 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's going to contact the next one. Using our sophisticated tool, you are going to be able to manage the records of your domain addresses and subdomains with ease even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.