Each registered domain name has no less than 2 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. This way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the very same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server manages the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one indicates which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, any time you type a domain name in your web browser, your request is forwarded through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be forwarded to the servers of another service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your emails with two different providers if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account from our company and you would like to direct either your website or your e-mails to a different service provider, it will take you literally just two mouse clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you'll be able to see and modify the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you wish to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 2, it won't 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 change or set up isn't going to 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's changed or deleted.