Each registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain name to the servers of a particular web hosting provider. In 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 are a number of other records, for instance A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, when you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you could be directed to the servers of a different provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having different records for the site and the emails means you could have your website and your e-mails with two different providers if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you want to direct either your website or your emails to an alternative provider, it is going to take you literally simply 2 clicks to do so. 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 edit 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 standard two, it will not take more than a few clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or create won't take more than several hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.