Each registered domain has at least 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a certain web hosting company. In this way, you have got both your website and your emails managed by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), on the other hand, there are a number of other records, like A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, when you enter a domain address in your browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having independent records for the website and the emails suggests that you can have your site and your emails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account from our company and you want to move either your site or your emails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally simply two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides 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 edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default 2, it is 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 greater the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up will not take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.