Every 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 provider. In this way, you have both your site and your emails handled by the same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, such as A and MX. The first one shows which server manages the website for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server handles the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For example, whenever you enter a domain name in your web browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you could be sent to the servers of a different service provider in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain name. Having independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you can have your site and your e-mails with two different companies if you'd like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to switch either your website or your e-mails to another provider, it will take you literally only 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you're 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 e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard 2, it won't take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up will not take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.