Every single registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain address to the servers of a particular website hosting company. This way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the exact same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the site for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you enter a domain in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be directed to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having different records for the website and the e-mails means you can have your website and your emails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to direct either your website or your emails to another provider, it'll take you literally only 2 clicks to do it. Our Hepsia CP provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it is not going to take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you change or create isn't going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.