Each registered domain has no less than two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a certain website hosting company. That way, you've got both your website and your emails managed by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, when you type a domain name in your 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 sent to the servers of another company in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having independent records for the website and the emails suggests that you may have your site and your e-mails with 2 different providers if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting through us, you are going to be able to see, set up and modify any A or MX record for your Internet addresses. So long as a given Internet domain has our Name Servers, you'll be able to change particular records by using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and have your website or emails pointed to any other service provider if you want to use only one of our services. Our state-of-the-art tool will even enable you to have a domain name hosted here and a subdomain below it to be hosted elsewhere by changing only its A record - this will not affect the main domain name at all. If you decide to use the e-mail services of a different provider and they want you to set up more than two MX records, you can easily do it with only a few mouse clicks within the DNS Records section of your CP. You can even set different latency for every single MX record i.e. which one is going to have priority.