Every single registered domain has at least two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a particular web hosting company. This way, you've got both your site and your emails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, for instance A and MX. The former reveals which server deals with the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you enter a domain in your web browser, your request is sent 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 a different company 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 emails suggests that you could have your site and your emails with two different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux hosting which we offer, will allow you to view, modify and set up A and MX records for each domain name or subdomain inside your account. Using the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to see 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 few mouse clicks. Setting up new records is equally simple if, as an illustration, you want to use the email services of a different company 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. In other words, when your emails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and if the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our innovative tool, you will be able to control the records of your domains and subdomains easily even though you may have no previous experience with such matters.