Each registered domain name has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a certain website hosting company. That way, you've got both your site and your e-mails handled by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, 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 latter shows which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when 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 will be forwarded to the servers of a different service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you can have your site and your e-mails with two different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see, create and modify any A or MX record for your domain names. Assuming that a specific Internet domain has our Name Servers, you will be able to modify specific records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or e-mails pointed to any other provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our sophisticated tool will even permit you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted someplace else by modifying only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name in any way. If you want to use the email services of another company and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a couple of mouse clicks through the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every MX record i.e. which one will have priority.