The word “hosting” doesn't describe only one service, but a set of services which provide various functions to a domain address. Having a site and emails, for example, are two individual services even though in the general case they come together, so a lot of people consider them as one single service. The truth is, each domain has a number of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each particular service - the first one is a numeric IP address, which specifies where the website for the domain is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the emails for the domain. As an example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a domain name has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. If you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the e-mail will then be directed to the correct server. The concept behind working with separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your site hosted by one company and the emails by another.
Custom MX and A Records in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account through our company and you would like to direct either your site or your emails to a different service provider, it is going to take you literally only two mouse clicks to do it. Our Hepsia Control Panel offers an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domains and subdomains are going to be listed alphabetically and you are 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 default 2, it will not take more than a couple of clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record will have. The propagation of each record that you modify or create will not take more than a few hours and if required, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which reveals how long a record will stay active after it is changed or deleted.
Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Accessing and modifying the A or MX records for any of your domain names or subdomains is really easy if you buy a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are managed through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you could click on each of them to see both the A and the MX records. Modifying any record is as easy as entering the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even though you may have never dealt with such matters before, you will not experience any difficulties if you wish to move your website or e-mails to some other provider while keeping the second service with our company. If needed, you can also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority in accordance with the recommendations of the new provider.