Every registered domain has no less than 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. That way, you've got 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 first one reveals which server deals with the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of a different service provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the website and the emails suggests that you could have your website and your emails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every cloud hosting which we offer, allows you to view, change and create A and MX records for every Internet domain or subdomain in your account. Through the DNS Records section, you're going to be able to view a list of all hosts in the account in alphabetical order with their related records, so any update isn't going to take you more than a couple of clicks. Setting up new records is as simple if, for example, you wish to use the email services of a different provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2. You may also set the priority for every single MX record by setting different latency. Quite simply, 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'll contact the next one. With our state-of-the-art tool, you're going to be able to handle the records of your domain names and subdomains effortlessly even if you have no previous experience with such matters.