Each registered domain has no less than two Name Server records that show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your Internet domain to the servers of a particular hosting provider. In this way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are lots of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server handles the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain uses and from there you may be sent to the servers of another service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having separate records for the website and the e-mails means that you may have your website and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you would like to move either your site or your emails to a different provider, it's going to take you literally just 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will 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 want to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the greater the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you change or set up won't take more than a few hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.