Every registered domain has at least two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a certain website hosting company. This way, you have got both your website and your e-mails handled by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, such as A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an illustration, whenever you enter a domain in your browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be sent 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 may have your website and your e-mails with two different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting through our company, you'll be able to view, set up and change any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. Assuming that a given domain has our Name Servers, you're going to be able to modify particular records using our Hepsia hosting CP and have your site or e-mails pointed to any other provider if you would like to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even allow 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 Internet domain 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 that with simply a few mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. Also you can set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one will have priority.