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 Internet domain to the servers of a specific website hosting provider. This way, you've got both your site and your emails handled 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, for example A and MX. The former reveals which server manages the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, any time you type a domain in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be forwarded to the servers of another company in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to point either your site or your e-mails to another service provider, it will take you literally only 2 clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides 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 modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you choose to use a different email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it will not take more than a few clicks either to add them. You may also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the bigger the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that indicates how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.