Each registered domain has no less than two Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a specific website hosting company. In this way, you have both your website and your emails managed by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are lots of other records, like A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you enter a domain name in your web browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of a different provider provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having different records for the website and the emails means that you could have your site 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 account from our company and you want to switch either your website or your e-mails to a different service provider, it's going to take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are going to be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of every record that you change or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.