The word “hosting” doesn't describe one service, but a variety of services that offer various functions to a domain address. Having a website and emails, as an illustration, are two separate services though in the general case they come together, so most people consider them as one single service. In fact, every domain has a couple of DNS records called A and MX, which show the server that handles each specific service - the first one is a numeric IP address, that defines where the website for the domain address is loaded from, while the latter is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain name. As an illustration, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record is mx1.domain.com. Whenever you open a website or send an e-mail, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first forwarded to that company. In case you have custom records on their end, the Internet browser request or the email will be sent to the correct server. The concept behind using separate records is that the two services employ different web protocols and you could have your site hosted by one company and the e-mails by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to direct either your website or your emails to another service provider, it's going to take you literally simply 2 clicks to do so. Our Hepsia CP 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 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 set up more MX records than the standard two, it won't take more than a few mouse clicks either to add them. You can also set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a certain MX record will have. The propagation of any record that you modify or set up isn't going to take more than a few hours and if necessary, you will 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.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With the Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we provide, you're going to have 100 % control over the records of all domain addresses and subdomains you add in your hosting account. You can easily check what A and MX records each one of them has through the DNS Records section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and changing any record takes simply a few clicks. If you decide to switch your web or email hosting provider, you can update the required record and point your domain to the other company for one of the services, as you still keep using the other one through us. Also you can keep the main domain address here, while you modify the A record of only one of its subdomains. When you're changing the MX records and you need additional ones on top of the default two we have, you can create them with ease and set a different priority for each one.