Every registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records which show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your domain name to the servers of a specific hosting company. In this way, you have both your website and your e-mails managed by the same company. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are a number of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server deals with the site for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter shows which server manages the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, any time you type a domain address in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the company whose NS records the domain uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of a different provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain. Having independent records for the site and the emails suggests that you could have your website and your emails with 2 different companies if you wish.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account through our company and you want to move either your site or your emails to a different company, it will take you literally simply two mouse clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP provides 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 decide to use a different e-mail provider and they ask you to set up more MX records than the default two, it won't 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 higher the priority a given MX record is going to have. The propagation of any record that you modify or create won't take more than a few hours and if needed, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will stay active after it's modified or deleted.