Every registered domain name has no less than two Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you point your Internet domain to the servers of a specific hosting company. That way, you have got both your site and your e-mails managed by the very same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there is a variety of other records, for example A and MX. The first one reveals which server manages the website for a given domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter reveals which server manages the emails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, when you type a domain 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 will be directed to the servers of another company in case you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your domain address. Having independent records for the site and the emails means you could have your website and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account from our company and you wish to point either your website or your e-mails to a different service provider, it will take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you will be able to see and change the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you decide to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default 2, it is not going to take more than a few clicks either to add them. You could 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 each record that you modify or set up won't take more than several hours and if necessary, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, that shows how long a record will remain active after it is modified or deleted.