Each registered domain has a minimum of 2 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 specific web hosting company. This way, you've got both your site and your emails handled by the 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 deals with the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you type a domain in your web browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may be sent to the servers of another provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting from us, you will be able to view, set up and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Provided that a specific domain name has our Name Servers, you are going to be able to to modify particular records via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your site or e-mails directed to any other service provider if you wish to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will allow you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main Internet domain at all. If you decide to use the email services of another provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for each MX record i.e. which one will have priority.