Every registered domain name has at least 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a certain hosting company. This way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the exact same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, 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 uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of another company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the website and the emails suggests that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with each and every Linux cloud website hosting package that we offer you, will permit you to view, modify and create A and MX records for each Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts inside the account from a to z with their related records, so any update will not take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, as an example, you want to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can even set the priority for each MX record by setting different latency. In other words, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server is going to contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it will contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you will be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.