Every single registered domain name has a minimum of 2 Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain address to the servers of a certain website hosting company. That way, you have got both your site and your e-mails managed by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server deals with the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you type a domain name 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 sent to the servers of another company 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 you may have your website and your emails with two different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting plan we offer, will allow you to see, modify and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain within your account. From the DNS Records section, you are going to be able to view a list of all hosts within the account from a to z with their corresponding records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. Creating new records is equally easy if, as an illustration, you want to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two. You can also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Put simply, when your e-mails are delivered, the sending server will contact the record with the smallest latency first and in case the connection times out, it's going to contact the next one. With our sophisticated tool, you'll be able to control the records of your domain addresses and subdomains effortlessly even though you may have no prior experience with such matters.