Every 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 Internet domain to the servers of a specific web hosting company. That way, you have both your website and your emails managed by the exact same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there are a number of other records, like A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, when you enter a domain name in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be forwarded to the servers of another company provided you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the website and the e-mails suggests that you may have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account from our company and you would like to switch either your site or your emails to a different service provider, it is going to take you literally only two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains are going to 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 choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard two, it's not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You can 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 any record that you modify or create isn't going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.