Every registered domain name has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a certain hosting provider. This way, you have both your website and your emails handled by the same company. 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 first one reveals which server handles the website for a given 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). For example, when you type a domain address in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be sent 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 independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you could have your website and your emails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account from our company and you wish to switch either your site or your e-mails to another service provider, it'll take you literally only two clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given 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 required, 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 is changed or deleted.