Each registered domain has no less than two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain name to the servers of a particular web hosting provider. This way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, for example A and MX. The former shows which server manages the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of another company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having independent records for the site and the emails means you may have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux website hosting we provide, will allow you to see, modify and create A and MX records for any domain or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update won't take you more than a few clicks. Creating new records is as easy if, as an illustration, you would like to use the e-mail services of a different company and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. To put it differently, 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's going to contact the next one. Using our advanced tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even if you have no prior experience with such matters.