Each registered domain has a minimum of two Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain address to the servers of a particular hosting company. In this way, you have got both your website and your emails managed by the exact 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 first one reveals which server manages the website for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, any time you enter a domain name in your web browser, your request is directed 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 a different provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails suggests that you can have your website and your emails with 2 different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account from our company and you want to move either your site or your e-mails to a different service provider, it'll take you literally simply 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names 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 want 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 mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create won't take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.