Every registered domain name has a minimum of two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular website hosting company. That way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you type a domain name in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be directed 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. Having separate records for the site and the emails means that you can have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a Linux shared website hosting package through us, you are going to be able to view, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. As long as a particular domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change specific records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your website or e-mails directed to any other company if you wish to use only one of our services. Our advanced tool will permit you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address in any way. If you choose to use the e-mail services of a different company and they want you to create more than 2 MX records, you can easily do this with just a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.