Every single registered domain has at least two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain to the servers of a particular hosting company. This way, you have both your website and your e-mails handled by the very same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, like A and MX. The first one shows which server handles the site for a given domain address and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one reveals which server deals with the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you may 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 Internet domain. Having separate records for the site and the e-mails means that you could have your site and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account through our company and you would like to move either your website or your e-mails to an alternative company, it'll take you literally just two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP offers 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 set up more MX records than the default two, it's not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. You can even set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up is not going to take more than a few hours and if needed, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that reveals how long a record will remain active after it's modified or deleted.