Every registered domain has no less than two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a particular website hosting provider. In this way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are lots of other records, for example A and MX. The first one shows which server handles the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, when you type a domain address 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 will be directed to the servers of another service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having independent records for the site and the emails suggests that you could have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a Linux website hosting from us, you'll be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your domains. Provided that a particular Internet domain has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to change specific records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or emails directed to any other provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool is going to enable you to have a domain address hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted somewhere else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain address at all. If you choose to use the email services of a different service provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with just a couple of clicks within 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.