Every single registered domain has a minimum of 2 Name Server records which show where it's hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a particular web hosting company. That way, you have got both your site and your emails handled by the same service provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), however, there is a variety of other records, like A and MX. The former reveals which server handles the site for a given domain name and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the second one shows which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). For instance, whenever you enter a domain address in your Internet browser, your request is directed through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain address uses and from there you may be sent to the servers of another service provider in case 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 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 Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting account through our company and you would like to move either your site or your emails to an alternative company, it'll take you literally only two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names 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 email provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the standard two, it's not going to take more than a couple of 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 each record that you change or set up won't take more than several hours and if required, 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.