The definition of “hosting” doesn't describe a single service, but a variety of services which provide a variety of functions to a domain. Having a website and emails, for example, are two separate services even though in the general case they come together, so most of the people consider them as one single service. Actually, every domain name 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 site for the domain name is loaded from, while the second one is an alphanumeric string, which shows the server that manages the e-mails for the domain address. For example, an A record would be 123.123.123.123 and an MX record can be mx1.domain.com. Every time you open a site or send an email, the global DNS servers are contacted to check the name servers that a Internet domain has and the traffic/message is first directed to that company. When you have custom records on their end, the browser request or the email will then be forwarded to the correct server. The idea behind employing separate records is that the two services use different web protocols and you can have your website hosted by one provider and the e-mail messages by another.

Custom MX and A Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to move either your site or your e-mails to an alternative company, it is going to take you literally just two clicks to do this. Our Hepsia Control Panel provides an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will 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 wish to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the standard 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 particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of every record that you change or set up will not take more than several hours and if necessary, you'll also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which indicates how long a record will remain active after it's changed or deleted.

Custom MX and A Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Accessing and editing the A or MX records for each of your domains or subdomains is really easy if you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. The accounts are managed through our in-house built Hepsia CP, which has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses. The latter is going to be listed alphabetically and you can click on any one of them to see both the A and the MX records. Editing any record is as simple as typing in the new one in a text box and saving the change, so even when you have never dealt with such matters before, you won't encounter any troubles if you want to switch your site or e-mails to another company while keeping the second service with our company. When necessary, you may also set up additional MX records and set a certain priority depending on the recommendations of the new provider.